Eros and polis : desire and community in Greek political theory /

Eros and polis : desire and community in Greek political theory /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ludwig, Paul W. (Paul Walter), 1963-
Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 398 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Eros -- (Greek deity) Eros -- (Greek deity) Political science -- Greece -- History. Homosexuality -- Political aspects -- Greece -- History. Sex -- Political aspects -- Greece -- History. Homosexuality -- Political aspects. Political science. Sex -- Political aspects. Greece. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11144830

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ISBN:	0521810655 9780521810654 0511064284 9780511064289 0511072740 9780511072741 0511057954 9780511057953 9780511497773 0511497776 9780521031431 0521031435
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-392) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Eros and Polis examines how and why Greek theorists treated political passions as erotic that would bind the citizens together through ties of mutual affection. In this study, Paul Ludwig evaluates sexuality, love, and civic friendship as sources of political attachment, and as bonds of political association.
Other form:	Print version: Ludwig, Paul W. (Paul Walter), 1963- Eros and polis. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002

Table of Contents:

Part I. Political eros: an account from the Symposium
Statesmanship and sexuality in Aristophanes' speech
Law and nature in Aristophanes' speech
Part II. The discourse of political eros
Scientific and poetic traditions of eros in Thucydides
Problem of aggression
Problem of sublimation
Part III. The Polis as a school for eros
Civic nudity
Patriotism and imperialism as eros.