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Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic Citizenship

by John Zumbrunnen
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781580465885
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Rochester Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Rochester Press
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  • Pages: 174
  • Original Price: USD 29.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 240 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Political Process / General, Civil Rights, and Political

Locates in Aristophanes' comedies a complex comic disposition appropriate to the fundamental challenge of ordinary citizenship in a democracy.

Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic Citizenship finds in Aristophanes' comedies a complex comic disposition necessary for meeting the fundamental challenge of ordinary citizenship. That challenge, Zumbrunnenargues, emerges from the tension between two democratic impulses: a rebelliousness that resists all attempts to impose any form of institutionalized rule; and an inclination toward collective action taken through institutions ofpopular rule. Democracy demands that ordinary citizens negotiate the tension between these often conflicting impulses. Aristophanes' comedies rest upon and seek to instill in spectators a complex comic disposition that holds a simple celebration of rebellion in tension with an appreciation for the organized collective action necessary to bring about real change.

John Zumbrunnen is professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Silence and Democracy: Athenian Politics in Thucydides' History as well as numerous articles and essays.

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