polis

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• In ancient Greece, each polis had its own government and laws.

• Ultimately at stake are alternative definitions of the polis, the social, and the wholeness of being human.

  Academic text (2001)

• And he speaks about the word polis more than once in the same general context.

• But I know my Greek, and you need a polis.

  Glossary of Broken Dreams (2018)

• We are the polis, says Sheila.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Audubon Terrace was created as an urban campus of learning, a forum in the polis.

  Academic text (2004)

• Ruptural voices in Women's Studies and American Studies speak directly to those of us in search of linguistic practices for a more democratic polis.

  Academic text (2000)

• This single favored phrase, an English translation of the ancient Greek word polis, is allowed again and again to stand for a socio-political reality that could not be larger or more complex and that cries out for closer examination.

  Academic text (2018)

• If we broaden polis to mean a community embodying the organization and fulfillment of human social relations, then the state, an organization that arose at a specific time and place, is not the only way but simply one way of imagining the organization of a social body.

  Academic text (2001)

• Athens is perhaps the most famous polis known for its contributions to democracy.

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