Potestas Quaerens Auctoritatem. Political Theology between Hierateuma and Strateuma

2019

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The article discusses the genesis of the political by treating this phenomena as a distinctive interaction between political and religious factors. The aim is to carry out the reconstruction of the premises of the political of ancient Greeks, by distinguishing its particular historic development features, exclusively characteristic for the Ancient Greece context. The rites of passage of Greek social communities are analyzed in order to understand why its youth initiation structure, formed during the Greek Dark Ages, became the basic model for Western Civilisation. The role of youth groups, the phenomena of Greek heroes, the educational structure of the young soldier class (ephebeia), and the first ever political revolution, initiated by Lycurgus, are examined by reconstructing the genealogy of the political.

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The Genealogy of the Political. The Age of Heroes and the Revolt of Youth

2019

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“…Ankstesnėse savo studijose (Kazlauskas 2017;2020), nagrinėjusiose politiškumo genezę ir jo raidą tamsiaisiais amžiais, archajinės ir klasikinės Graikijos laikotarpiais, stengiausi atskleisti, kaip įvairūs Antikos graikų socialumo ir individualumo santykio aspektai formavo pamatines socialines ir politines įtampas. Tačiau rimta filosofine ir kultūrine problema socialumo ir individualumo santykis virto tik helenizmo epochoje.…”

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The Crisis of the Political. An Individual and the Cosmopolis

2022

SMV

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The purpose of this paper is to identify the most important problems of the crisis of the political in the first stage of Western civilization – the Greek world in the IV–II centuries BC. The crisis of the political is treated as a unique constellation of political, supra-political, and apolitical factors. The paper explores a hypothesis of how the power elite eliminates the core features of the political – tensions of consciousness and natural human hostilities – and substitutes them with management techniques that cause public apathy towards previously established democratic institutions. A theatrical model of life with an intensified function of individualizing social roles is an unavoidable result of such processes.

The Crisis of the Political. Polis and an Individual

2022

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The article discusses the crisis of the political, treating this phenomenon as an interactive constellation of political, over-political and apolitical factors. The aim is to reconstruct the assumptions of the crisis and highlight its main features in the context of ancient Greece. Under the influence of Dionysian religion, theater was established as a compelling and universally accessible authority to legitimize democracy. Therefore my analysis focuses on the social change after which democracy was no longer perceived as a form of governance but as a form of collective ownership. The article explains how the unbridled demonstration of power quickly erased the long-cherished principle of verbal argumentation and pushed Greeks to practice of power politics. It is shown how, with the establishment of autocracy, parallel interchange between political and anti-political institutions emerged in the Greek polis.