Valentina Moro – “Il teatro della polis. Filosofia dell’agonismo tragico” (2023)
Edizioni ETS – Collana POLIS
Greek tragic theater allows us to understand Greek reflections on politics from a different perspective than philosophy. It is primarily an institution, a way in which the political was experienced in the polis; a context of democratic participation that provided awareness and raised questions about the limits of such participation, the exclusions it produced, and the meaning of living together. The aim of this volume is to look at tragic agonism, understood as a symbolic-interpretive dimension and a defining feature of the political in the polis, starting with the great tragic theater of Sophocles. It is examined not only for its content but also for its language and the aesthetics of its staging. In the analysis of Sophocles’ texts, this volume adopts the category of the feminine as a differential parameter from which to question the reference to legal and political structures conceived solely from the male figure of the citizen/soldier. The category of the feminine has made it possible to focus on relationships, rather than individual voices, on stage and to fully understand the aesthetics of bodies through references to representation