Torture and Truth (Routledge Revivals)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 female body and the Greek temple. This philosophy and practice is related to Greek views of the ‘Other’ (women and outsiders) and considers the role of torture in distinguishing slave and free in ancient Athens. A wide range of perspectives — from Plato to Sartre — are employed to examine the subject. |
Contents
| 1 | |
2 Touchstone | 9 |
3 The Law | 35 |
4 Slavery and Freedom | 39 |
5 Torture | 47 |
6 The Slaves Truth | 63 |
7 Torture and Writing | 69 |
8 Buried Truth | 75 |
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accused Aegina alêtheia allegory ambiguity ancient Greek archaic argues argument aristocratic Aristotle Athens basanôi basanos cave century B.C.E. citizens claims concealment context court darkness dead death debate democracy democratic describes Detienne dialogue difference Dionysos dominant earth elsewhere enslaved essay evidence female body forgetting gender goddess Heidegger's Herakleitos hero Herodotos hidden Homer human Ibid interrogation Jean-Pierre Vernant journey Kreon language Lêthê logic Marcel Detienne Martin Heidegger master meaning ment metal metaphor mortal Mourelatos Nazi notion of truth Odysseus Oedipus oracle Parmenides philosophical Pierre Vidal-Naquet Pindar Plato Plato's poet political pre-Socratics present punishment rack realm recall relationship reveals says scene secret slave slave and free slave torture slave's body slavery Socrates Sophist soul Sowing the Body speaker speech suggests tattooing Teiresias testimony Theognis Theognis of Megara things thinkers Thucydides tion torture torture of slaves touchstone traditional tragedy trans true unhiddenness violence women word alêtheia word basanos Xanthias