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Professor of Ancient History at Graifswald University. He develops a praxeological approach to historical research. He has worked on the ritual and symbolic dimension of politics in antiquity especially on roman ritual practices of collective memory. Books: Angeschaute Geschichte. Zur ‘Griechischen Kulturgeschichte’ von Jacob Burckhardt [Aestheticized History. On Jakob Burkhardt’s cultural history of Greece] Rheinfelden 1987; Den Kaiser herausfordern. Die Usurpation im Römischen Reich [Braving the King. The usurpation in the Roman Empire], Frankfurt / New York 1992; Ödipus. Tragischer Vatermord im klassischen Athen [Oedipus. Tragic father murder in classical Athens], München 1998; Ritualisierte Politik. Zeichen, Gesten und Herrschaft im Alten Rom [Ritualize politics. Signs, gestures and power in ancient Rome], Göttingen 2003. He is currently working on a book about the genesis, risk and dynamic of majority rule in Greek culture. Political thinking (equality, slavery and freedom) from Antiquity to the Modern time is for him another field of interest.
L’exercice de la majorité participe de la ritualisation de la vie politique en Occident. Jusqu’à quel point et pour quelle raison la « loi de la majorité » peut-elle être considérée comme ...
