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Industrial and Corporate Change, Volume 12, Number 4, pp. 943-960
© 2003 Oxford University Press

Between polis and poiesis: on the ‘Cytherean’ ambiguities in the poetry of James G. March

Josef Chytry

IMIO F402, Haas School of Business #1930, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1930, USA. Email: chytry{at}haas.berkeley.edu.

Abstract

This paper provides an intellectual–historical reading of James G. March's poetic work, a facet of his production that may prove interesting to students of his contributions to the social sciences. To provide the appropriate historical understanding of that work, the paper draws an extended comparison between Dante as poet of a period in which civic life was paramount and March as representative of a more narrowly material civilization. The paper concludes that in its valuable readings of the contemporary milieu of Stanford and Palo Alto—exemplars of the modern American ‘university city’ or ‘Ideopolis’—March's poetry offers insights into modes of life, both personal and social, that might be compared and contrasted with the poet's classic function in the traditional polis or city-republic.


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