Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment by David Scott

Author:David Scott
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011-10-21T16:00:00+00:00

Aeschylus’s intuition, James suggests, was that the old forms of politics and the old forms of art were exhausted and that with the emergence of the new political order, new forms of aesthetic expression were needed. And embodying, as he did, both the old and the new, having lived through the collapse of the old tyranny and the emergence of the new democracy, he was best placed to carry out the innovations. In the uncertainty of the new democracy, Aeschylus’s tragedy provided a form in which it could examine—and criticize—itself. As James acutely says:

The tragic hero was a distinguished man. He usually suffered from some weakness—a kind of personal pride to which the Greeks gave a special name—hubris. And any man who sought too much power, too much distinction, to remove himself from the normal, then the tragic destiny was likely to fall upon him. It was a warning to the democracy to maintain a certain balance, a certain proportion.24

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