I never knew what time it was [[electronic resource] /] / David Antin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783314103321
• Autore: Antin David
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005
• ISBN: 1-282-76313-X; 9786612763137; 0-520-93829-1; 1-59875-531-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Disciplina: 811/.54
• Soggetti: Performance art; Arts - California; California Civilization
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: The theory and practice of postmodernism: a manifesto -- California: the nervous camel -- Café Europa -- Talking at Blérancourt -- The noise of time -- I never knew what time it was -- Time on my hands -- How wide is the frame -- What happened to Walter -- Endangered nouns.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this series of intricately related texts, internationally known poet, critic, and performance artist David Antin explores the experience of time-how it's felt, remembered, and recounted. These free-form talk pieces-sometimes called talk poems or simply talks-began as improvisations at museums, universities, and poetry centers where Antin was invited to come and think out loud. Serious and playful, they move rapidly from keen analysis to powerful storytelling to passages of pure comedy, as they range kaleidoscopically across Antin's experiences: in the New York City of his childhood and youth, the Eastern Europe of family and friends, and the New York and Southern California of his art and literary career. The author's analysis and abrasive comedy have been described as a mix of Lenny Bruce and Ludwig Wittgenstein, his commitment to verbal invention and narrative as a fusion of Mark Twain and Gertrude Stein. Taken together, these ; pieces provide a rich oral history of and critical context for the evolution of the California art scene from the 1960's onward.

Prudes, perverts, and tyrants [[electronic resource] ] : Plato's Gorgias and the politics of shame / / Christina H. Tarnopolsky

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785060803321
• Autore: Tarnopolsky Christina H. <1964->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-282-64504-8; 9786612645044; 1-4008-3506-2
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Disciplina: 170
• Soggetti: Shame - Political aspects; Democracy - Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Plato'S Gorgias and the Athenian Politics of Shame -- Chapter One. Shame and Rhetoric in Plato's Gorgias -- Chapter Two. Shaming Gorgias, Polus, and Callicles -- Chapter Three. Plato on Shame in Democratic Athens -- Chapter Four. Socratic vs. Platonic Shame -- Part Two. Plato's Gorgias and the Contemporary Politics of Shame -- Chapter Five. Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato and the Contemporary Politics of Shame and Civility -- Chapter Six. What's so Negative about the "Negative" Emotions? -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In recent years, most political theorists have agreed that shame shouldn't play any role in democratic politics because it threatens the mutual respect necessary for participation and deliberation. But Christina Tarnopolsky argues that not every kind of shame hurts democracy. In fact, she makes a powerful case that there is a form of shame essential to any critical, moderate, and self-reflexive democratic ; practice. Through a careful study of Plato's Gorgias, Tarnopolsky shows that contemporary conceptions of shame are far too narrow. For Plato, three kinds of shame and shaming practices were possible in democracies, and only one of these is similar to the form condemned by contemporary thinkers. Following Plato, Tarnopolsky develops an account of a different kind of shame, which she calls "respectful shame." This practice involves the painful but beneficial shaming of one's fellow citizens as part of the ongoing process of collective deliberation. And, as Tarnopolsky argues, this type of shame is just as important to contemporary democracy as it was to its ancient form. Tarnopolsky also challenges the view that the Gorgias inaugurates the problematic oppositions between emotion and reason, and rhetoric and philosophy. Instead, she shows that, for Plato, rationality and emotion belong together, and she argues that political science and democratic theory are impoverished when they relegate the study of emotions such as shame to other disciplines.