172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1991, this book — through the examination of ancient Greek literary, philosophical and legal texts — analyses how the Athenian torture of slaves emerged from and reinforced the concept of truth as something hidden in the human body. It discusses the tradition of understanding truth as something that is generally concealed and the ideas of ‘secret space’ in both the... Read more
1. Rome, 1985 2. Touchstone 3. The Law 4. Slavery and Freedom 5. Torture 6. The Slave’s Truth 7. Torture and Writing 8. Buried Truth 9. Some Pre-Socrates 10. Plato’s Truth 11. Democracy 12. Plato and Heidegger 13. Criticism/Self-Criticism 14. Women, the Body, and Torture; References
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