The Fear of Athens: A Levinasian Approach to Attic Theatre and the Negation of the Other by the Mask
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This paper pretends to establish a reading of the phaenomenon of the mask in Attic theatre (5th century b. C.) regarding the problem of the negation of the Other by ontology proposed by Lévinas. The concealment through the imposition of the mask in front of the face of the actor would have, in the context of Athens, other correlations, compulsive negations of the discord inside of the city. This eagerness of the Athenian discourse to hail itself as an undivided Self practices a set of strategies to erradicate the danger, implied in the otherness, to the continuity of this solid self-representation. Therefore, the countenance and the mask reproduce a conflict that we can trace through the revision of tragic sources: we corroborate that the problem of the expression, present in the category of countenance (face) developed by Lévinas, appears as preceded by the term πρόσωπον.
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