Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 01:06:06 -0400
From: Helen Wishart <hawishar-AT-grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu>
Subject: Re: Hecuba


Just another thought. It is tempting to speculate on the
"transformative" effect of Euripides' dramas on the Athenians of his
day.  (I read Butler's  chapter in Excitable Speech carefully.)

Historically we know that Euripides was regarded as unpatriotic and
found it necessary to leave Athens for Macedonia in his later years.
Bourdieu quotes Sartre in  "Outline"--"Words wreak havoc when they find
a name for what had up to then been lived namelessly"

I believe that Bourdieu's description of the reflexive sociologist can
perhaps also be applied to Euripides:
"There is no risk of overestimating difficulty and dangers when it comes
to thinking the social world. . . Rupture in fact demands a conversion
of one's gaze....the task is to produce, if not a new person, then at
least a new gaze, a sociological eye, and this cannot be done without a
genuine conversion, a metanoia, a mental revolution, a transformation of
one's whole vision of the social world." (Invitation to Reflexive
Sociology. 251)
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