Author's Keywords: Aristotle, Politics, polis, empire, Greek, barbarian, Macedon, Alexander, coming to be and passing away	Convention All Academic Convention is the premier solution for your association's abstract management solutions needs. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
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Dietz, Mary. "Between Polis and Empire: Aristotle's Politics" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211122_index.html>

Dietz, M. G. , 2007-08-30 "Between Polis and Empire: Aristotle's Politics" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2011-06-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211122_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Despite a voluminous literature on Aristotle (384-322 BCE) in political theory, efforts to read the Politics against the historical discontinuities of c4th BCE Macedonian imperialism and Alexander�s kingship are negligible, if not entirely non-existent. Instead, Aristotle�s most political and unruly text is routinely refracted through the flickering light of �the Greek polis,� called upon to signify the last great gasp of the classical city-state and �man as a political animal.� Under this rubric, the Politics is locked into a polis-centric (or polis-parochial) frame that renders Aristotelian political thought as (perhaps advertently) complicit in the classical Greek imperial binary logic of hierarchical oppositions that privilege the nation (ethnos) of the Greeks over non-Greek �barbarians� (barbaroi) and enforce in the polis the superiority of the full citizen (polites) over the foreigner as resident alien (metoikos). In challenging this dominant interpretive strategy, I reconfigure both Aristotle and the Politics in terms of their actual mid-c4th BCE historical milieu and the political difficulties that Hellenic world cities are facing in the wake of Macedonian imperialism under Philip II and Alexander III. Following Aristotle�s philosophy of movement, the Politics is pulled into an ontological and temporal zone attuned to �coming to be and passing away,� where one order of rule (the Greek polis) is in the process of losing its sway and another (Hellenistic empire) is beginning to work out the effective modes of its own political existence. �In-between� polis and empire, the Politics might be better grasped not as classically complacent but rather as operating under an emergent anxiety about the potentiality (to be or not be) of citizenship (the many or �multitude�) in large cities under the sway of an absolute world sovereign (pambasileia). In this irruptive ontological locale, Aristotelian political thought can also be grasped as (perhaps inadvertently) disrupting the fixed terms of previous binary hierarchical oppositions (e.g. Greek/barbarian; citizen/alien) as it struggles with the imperial logic that marks the unitary regime of �fusion� under Alexander as Hegemon of Hellas, Monarch of Macedon, and King of Asia, three in One.

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