Demetra Kasimis (University of Chicago)

The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy

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Produktbeschreibung

Argues that immigration politics is a central - but overlooked - object of inquiry in the democratic thought of classical Athens. Thinkers criticized democracy's strategic investments in nativism, the shifting boundaries of citizenship, and the precarious membership that a blood-based order effects for those eligible and ineligible to claim it.

Produktdetails

• Classics after Antiquity
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 186mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781107052437
• ISBN-10: 1107052432
• Artikelnr.: 52418596

Autorenporträt

Demetra Kasimis is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Her research on classical Greek thought and democratic theory has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council for Learned Societies, and has appeared in such journals as Political Theory and Contemporary Political Theory. The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy is her first book.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Autochthony Trouble: 1. The metic in and out of theory
2. Immigrant passing in Euripides' Ion, the tragedy of blood-based membership
Part II. A Metric Republic in Three Acts: 3. The Republic as a metic space
4. Plato's open decret
5. Of mimesis and metic: a reading of democracy in Book VIII
Part III. Evading Detection: 6. Citizen passing in Demosthenes 57: the oration of Athenian blood
Conclusion: political theory from the edges of Athenian democracy
Appendix. A metic timeline.