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Zusatztext This sophisticated analysis elucidates how Plato's ideal community would transform musical performance into training for citizenship. Working with themes of genre and gender, Folch offers a lucid and stylish examination that relates spectatorship to civic identity, and makes persuasive correlations between aesthetic, ethical and political concerns in Laws. Informationen zum Autor Marcus Folch is Assistant Professor of Classics at Columbia University. His published work includes studies of ancient Greek literature, philosophy, and literary criticism, as well as classical reception in the 20th century. Klappentext The Polis and the Stage provides an exploration of Plato's final engagement with the poetic tradition. Special attention is given to the dialogue between philosophy and poetry, the performative properties of language, the psychology of aesthetic response, genre, gender, and the status of women in the ideal city envisaged in the Laws. Zusammenfassung The Polis and the Stage provides an exploration of Plato's final engagement with the poetic tradition. Special attention is given to the dialogue between philosophy and poetry, the performative properties of language, the psychology of aesthetic response, genre, gender, and the status of women in the ideal city envisaged in the Laws. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Performance and the Second-Best City Abstract 1 Introduction 2 An Ancient Quarrel Revisited 3 The Laws, Its City, Its Scope 4 Paradigmatism and the 'Second-Best' Politeia 5 The Correct Method (orthê methodos) of Cultural Criticism 6 Conclusions Notes Chapter 1. Marionettes of the Soul: Performance and the Psychology of Mousikê in Plato's Laws Abstract 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Theoretical Orientations: Performance, Performativity, Political Dissent 1.3 Of Puppets and Passions: The Moral Psychology of Performance in Plato's Laws 1.4 Virtue, Education, Aesthetic Response: A Model of Performativity 1.5 Inscription and the Making of a Philosophical Performance Culture 1.6 Conclusions Notes Chapter 2. The Chorus and the Critic: Literary Criticism, Theatrocracy, and the Performance of Philosophy Abstract 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Critical Errors: Genre, Theatrocracy, and the Unideal City 2.3 Setting the Stage: Pleasure, Judgment, and the Performance of Philosophy 2.4 Beyond the Choral Muse: The Chorus of Dionysus and the Metaphysics of Literary Criticism 2.5 Conclusions Notes Chapter 3. Laws' Genres: Hymns, Encomia, and the Remaking of Lament Abstract 3.1 Th Introduction: 3.2 The Laws' Genres: Hymns, Encomia, and the Politics of Euphêmia 3.3 The Laws in Praise and Blame 3.4 Funerary Regained 3.5 Conclusions Notes Chapter 4. Unideal Genres and the Ideal City: Comedy, Tragedy, and the Limits of the City Dancing Abstract 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Comedy, Threnody, and the Performance of Alterity 4.3 From Antithesis to Identity: Comedic and Iambic Invective 4.4 Plato's Tragic Muse 4.5 Beyond the Politics of Performance: ta bakkheia and the Genres of Ecstasy 4.6 Conclusions Notes Chapter 5. Women's Statuses in Plato's Laws: Nature, Gender, Law, and the Performance of Citizenship Abstract 5.1 Introduction 5.2 'Natural' Heterosexuality 5.3 Transgendered Virtues and the Social Contract 5.4 Natural Correction: Feasting, Warfare, Schooling, and the 'Trope of Life' (tropos tou biou) 5.5 Unnatural Limitations: The Political Lives of Women 5.6 Conclusions Notes Chapter 6. Engendering Harmonies: Women's Songs in Plato's Laws Abstract 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Veils of Silence: Women, Theater, and Performance in Athens and Magnesia 6.3 Performance, Performativity, and the Making of Citizen Women 6.4 'Cultic Citizenship' Revisited: Lament and the Female Voice 6.5 Con...
