Leonard Miriam. Athens in Paris: Ancient Greece and the Political in Post-War French Thought

Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. — 288 p. — (Classical Presences). — ISBN: 0-19-927725-7.Athens in Paris explores the ways in which the writings of the ancient Greeks played a decisive part in shaping the intellectual projects of structuralism and post-structuralism — arguably the most significant currents of thought of the post-war era. Miriam Leonard argues that thinkers in post-war France turned to the example of Athenian democracy in their debates over the role of political subjectivity and ethical choice in the life of the modern citizen. The authors she investigates, who include Lacan, Derrida, Foucault, and Vernant, have had an incalculable influence on the direction of classical studies over the last thirty years, but classicists have yet to give due attention to the crucial role of the ancient world in the development of their philosophy.
Miriam Leonard is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol.Introduction: ‘Nous autres grecs’
Oedipus and the Political Subject
Oedipus and the Subject of Philosophy
Tragic Will and the ‘Ends of Man’
‘Oedipe et ses mythes’
Anti-Oedipus: Antiquity on the Analyst’s CouchAntigone between Ethics and Politics
Hegel’s Antigone and the Ethics of Consciousness
‘The Beauty of the Ethical Life’: Lacan’s Antigone
Antigone’s Vicious Circle: Irigaray and Hegel
Making an example out of Antigone: Hegel after Derrida
‘The New Greece and its Jew’Socrates and the Analytic City
From Oedipus to Socrates...from Hegel to Nietzsche
Lacan meets Socrates: The divided self outside the city
The Platonic Turn: Derrida’s ‘Pharmakos’Epilogue: Reception and the Political