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HENT DE VRIES A further thesis propounded by Hamacher is that, whereas human rights and their declaration are essentially ‘‘a ju ...

INTRODUCTION They assert themselves as the performance of a grounding and install themselves—and stall—through this very asserti ...

HENT DE VRIES And what, exactly, is the religious echo that colors or burdens such a politics (including a ‘‘politics of life,’’ ...

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The Gods of Politics in Early Greek Cities Marcel Detienne I have decided to speak of ‘‘the gods’’ rather than ‘‘religion,’’ and ...

MARCEL DETIENNE For roughly ten years I have been engaged in comparative inquiry in a field that may be described as consisting ...

THE GODS OF POLITICS IN EARLY GREEK CITIES in order to barter one commodity for another, although perhaps in another study I sha ...

MARCEL DETIENNE were the contemporaries of Machiavelli, the Ochollos of Southern Ethiopia of both today and yesterday—not to men ...

THE GODS OF POLITICS IN EARLY GREEK CITIES associations withreligio-religereand the idea of ritualistic scruples, conjure up cer ...

MARCEL DETIENNE tarity between deities. As Georges Dume ́zil has stressed, any attentive observer cannot fail to note the ‘‘stru ...

THE GODS OF POLITICS IN EARLY GREEK CITIES to call the ‘‘colonies’’ of Sicily and elsewhere. To be on the safe side, Nausithoos ...

MARCEL DETIENNE own Apollo. But an altar was not enough to make a city. There was also a need for sacrificial fire that had been ...

THE GODS OF POLITICS IN EARLY GREEK CITIES and public opinion, I am perhaps moving too fast, as the gods are now reminding me. L ...

MARCEL DETIENNE of nature, both visible and invisible. On the one hand, we thus find a society that forms an image of itself thr ...

THE GODS OF POLITICS IN EARLY GREEK CITIES fare, on the one hand, and harmony and concord, on the other, introduces a set of maj ...

Church, State, Resistance Jean-Luc Nancy 1 The separation of church and state is the French expression, linked to the dominant C ...

CHURCH, STATE, RESISTANCE cal possibility among others, but a constitutive element of politics as such—if we agree to give this ...

JEAN-LUC NANCY 3 Under these conditions, the religion proper to the city—where there is one—has a double aspect. On the one hand ...

CHURCH, STATE, RESISTANCE ever before in antiquity, and finally, in a general manner, theexemplumpar excellence, that of the mag ...