Tragically Speaking: On the Use and Abuse of Theory for Life

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Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction xv Part 1: Old Quarrels 1. Orient/Occident, Ancients/ Moderns: The Tyranny of Theory over Greece 3 2. An Old Quarrel: Poetry and Philosophy 52 Part 2: For the Love of Truth 3. Habeas Corpus: Foucault’s Fearless Speech 93 4. Plato’s Courts: Phaedrus and Apology 119 5. Euripides’s Verdict: The Bacchae 157 Part 3: Passions 6. Ῥίζα Αἱματόεσσα: On Antigone 171 7. Antigone’s Children 209 Appendix 247 Notes 257 Works Cited 305 Index 317 ...