"Platonic Noise" brings classical and contemporary writings into
conversation to enrich our experience of modern life and politics.
Drawing on writers as diverse as Plato, Homer, Nietzsche, Borges,
Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth, Peter Euben shows us the relevance of
both popular literature and ancient Greek thought to current
questions of loss, mourning, and democracy--all while arguing for
the redeeming qualities of political and intellectual work and
making an original case against presentism.
Juxtaposing ancient and contemporary texts, politics, and
culture, Euben reflects on a remarkable range of recent issues and
controversies. He discusses Stoic cosmopolitanism and
globalization, takes a critical look at Nietzsche's own efforts to
make the Greeks speak to the issues of his day, examines a Greek
tragedy through Hannah Arendt's eyes, compares the role of comedy
in ancient Athens and contemporary America, analyzes political
theory as a reaction to an acute sense of loss, and considers
questions of agency and morality.
"Platonic Noise" makes a case for reading political theory and
politics through literature. Working as much through example as
through explicit argument, Euben casts the literary memory of
Athenian democracy as a crucial cultural resource and a presence in
contemporary political and theoretical debates. In so doing, he
reasserts the moral value of what we used to call participatory
democracy and the practical value of seeing ourselves with the help
of insights from long-gone Greeks.
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