Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-221) and index.
Introduction : the persistence of the past -- Sophocles' Oedipus tyrannos : the tragedy of enlightenment -- Liberating discourse : the politics of truth in Plato's Gorgias -- Plato's Republic : (con)founding the theoretical imagination -- Democracy and discipline in Aeschylus's Oresteia -- Conclusion : the tragedy of critical theory.
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Tragedy and enlightenment.
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Plato.
Plato.
Civilization, Western-- Greek influences.
Enlightenment.
Greek drama (Tragedy)-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.