附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-221) and index.
Introduction : the persistence of the past -- Sophocles' Oedipus tyrannos : the tragedy of enlightenment -- Liberating discourse : the politics of truth in Plato's Gorgias -- Plato's Republic : (con)founding the theoretical imagination -- Democracy and discipline in Aeschylus's Oresteia -- Conclusion : the tragedy of critical theory.