Eros and Polis: Desire and Community in Greek Political Theory

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Cambridge University Press, 2002年10月21日 - 398 頁
Eros and Polis examines how and why Greek theorists treated political passions as erotic. Because of the tiny size of ancient Greek cities, contemporary theory and ideology could conceive of entire communities based on desire. A recurrent aspiration was to transform the polity into one great household that would bind the citizens together through ties of mutual affection. In this study, Paul Ludwig evaluates sexuality, love and civic friendship as sources of political attachment and as bonds of political association. Studying the ancient view of eros recovers a way of looking at political phenomena that provides a bridge, missing in modern thought, between the private and public spheres, between erotic love and civic commitment. Ludwig's study thus has important implications for the theoretical foundations of community.

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Introduction
1
AN ACCOUNT FROM THE SYMPOSIUM
25
PART TWO THE DISCOURSE OF POLITICAL EROS
119
PART THREE THE POLIS AS A SCHOOL FOR EROS
259
List of Works Cited
381
Index
393
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