Browsing by Publisher "Duke University Press"
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COMIC SOCRATES? The Clouds, Taste, and Philosophy
(Duke University Press, 2022)In the Clouds, Aristophanes apparently ridicules Socratic philosophy as a useless, essentially passive preoccupation, which, “twisted” in the wrong hands, can seriously harm the City. But such an instrumentalist reading ... -
The despotic imperative: From Hiero to the circle
(Duke University Press, 2019)The article thematizes the actuality of despotism through a double reading of Xenophon’s Hiero and Dave Eggers’s Circle. A key text on despotism, Hiero is interesting to reconsider in a contemporary context because of its ...