The bonds among republican citizens are created, in part, through the stories told and retold as the foundational myths of the republic. In this book, Melissa Matthes takes advantage of the way in which republican theorists in different eras--Livy, Machiavelli, and Rousseau--retell the story of the rape of Lucretia to support their own conceptions of republicanism.
The recurring presentation of this story as theater by these different theorists reveals not only the performative elements of republicanism but, as Matthes argues, adds to Hannah Arendt's emphasis on the oral dimensions...
The bonds among republican citizens are created, in part, through the stories told and retold as the foundational myths of the republic. In this bo...
The bonds among republican citizens are created, in part, through the stories told and retold as the foundational myths of the republic. In this book, Melissa Matthes takes advantage of the way in which republican theorists in different eras--Livy, Machiavelli, and Rousseau--retell the story of the rape of Lucretia to support their own conceptions of republicanism.
The recurring presentation of this story as theater by these different theorists reveals not only the performative elements of republicanism but, as Matthes argues, adds to Hannah Arendt's emphasis on the oral dimensions...
The bonds among republican citizens are created, in part, through the stories told and retold as the foundational myths of the republic. In this bo...
