The Rape of Lucretia and the Founding of Republics: Readings in Livy, Machiavelli, and Rousseau - Brossura

Matthes, Melissa M.

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ISBN 10: 0271020555 ISBN 13: 9780271020556

Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2001

Riassunto

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 of speech and hearing the important idea of public space as a visual field.

Lucretia’s story also helps illuminate the gendering of republicanism, particularly the aspects of violence and subordination that lie at its very origin. By focusing attention on this underlying and deeply gendered quality of republics, Matthes brings republican theory into fruitful dialogue with feminism.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Melissa M. Matthes is Assistant Professor of Government & Politics and Women's Studies at the University of Maryland. Her articles have appeared in Alif and Political Theory, and she has contributed a chapter to The Nature of Woman and the Art of Politics (Eduardo Velasquez, ed., 1999).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0271020555
• ISBN 13: 9780271020556
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 188