The Tyranny of Reason in the World of the Polis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3558301 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arlene W Saxonhouse (0000-0002-1828-2435, University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1261-1275 |
| Publication date | 1988-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1961759 |
| OpenAlex | W1964238640 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 12 |
The modern language of tyranny has distorted the significance of the Greek term tyrannos. In ancient Greek the term was accorded to the new ruler in the city, one whose legitimacy did not reside in his bonds to the ancient rulers and ancient families. Tyranny thus suggested a freedom from the past. Reason, as the Greeks understood it, also entailed a breaking away from the physical world. Reason and tyranny thus work together as expressions of freedom, but it is a freedom that in its transcendence of boundaries leads to tragedy. An examination of Sophocles' Oedipus draws out both the glory and the failure of the individual attempt of the political actor to rise above the historical particular and the mere body to build a world where reason alone is power
Ancient history · Art · Epistemology · Glory · Greeks · Legitimacy · Literature · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Ruler · Tragedy (event · Transcendence (philosophy · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
When the People Rule
Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy
The Limitations of Rationalism
Socratic Philosophy and the Cleitophon
The Limits of Political Rationalism
Tragedy against Tyranny
Why Tyrants Go Too Far
Oedipus and Socrates on the Quest for Self-Knowledge
The Tyranny of Dictatorship
Another Antigone
Scholasticism in Political Science
The Piety of Thought in Plato'sRepublic, Book 1
Athenian homicide law in the age of the orators.
Tragedy and civilization
Public and Private in Social Life
The Art and Thought of Heraclitus
The Greek Tyrants
Drakon and Early Athenian Homicide Law
Men, Women, War, and Politics. Family and Polis in Aristophanes and Euripides
Sophocles and Oedipus. A Study of Oedipus Tyrannus with a New Translation
Oedipus at Thebes
III. The Philosophy of the Particular and the Universality of the City
The Fragility of Goodness
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2023 (30) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |