Seeing Citizens
Rereading Gyges's Ring of Invisibility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5000388 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily Greenwood (0000-0003-0677-7649, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 819-845 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-783X • E-ISSN: 1944-768X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sor.2016.0057 |
| OpenAlex | W2599958982 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
The myth of the ring of Gyges’ ancestor in Book II of Plato’s Republic is intended as a provocation by Glaucon, who narrates it, and by Plato as the external narrator exploring questions of civic justice. A ring that makes the (un)ethical subject invisible is problematic for any civic community, and to read this myth in the American present is to confront the issue of the visibility and invisibility of citizens and the relationship between citizenship and the visual realm. In the process, strategic invisibility merges as a potent and troubling theme for democratic theory, ancient and modern
Aesthetics · Art · Citizenship · Democracy · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Invisibility · Literature · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Realm · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Theme (computing) · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Visual Culture and Art Theory
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Thucydides
Politics and the Street in Democratic Athens
Domination and the Arts of Resistance
The Invention of Athens
The Associations of Classical Athens
Free Spaces
The Athenian Empire
The Greek Commonwealth
The Athenian Nation
The Ideology of the Athenian Metic
Status in Classical Athens
Plato's open secret
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |