Autore
Serra, Mauro

Titolo
The Divided City: Rethinking Conflict from Nicole Loraux’s Perspective
Periodico
Estetica
Anno: 2024 - Fascicolo: speciale - Pagina iniziale: 235 - Pagina finale: 252

Considered by many to be Nicole Loraux’s masterpiece, "The Divided City" (with its completion represented by the posthumous volume "La tragedie d’Athènes") is probably a book with which we have not yet come to terms fully. Conflict, which, through a highly original interpretation of "stasis", constitutes its thematic core, continues, in fact, to be a difficult concept to handle. On the one hand, for a widely dominant tradition of thought (for example, Habermas, Arendt), it is simply an obstacle to be removed (or concealed) in order to guarantee in the most adequate form the associated life within a political community. On the other hand, even thinkers (for example, Mouffe) who, in various ways, have tried to re-evaluate its foundational, and therefore inescapable, function in the dimension of the «political» have not done so with the radicality that shines through in the pages of the prematurely deceased French scholar. In my paper, therefore, I try to bring out, starting from the background to which I have alluded, the reasons why, by virtue of that controlled anachronism of which Loraux was a masterful interpreter and advocate, the conflict of the "polis" and in the "polis" continues to question us with searing relevance.



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