Athenian Legacies : : Essays on the Politics of Going On Together /

Athenian Legacies : : Essays on the Politics of Going On Together / / Josiah Ober.

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How do communities survive catastrophe? Using classical Athens as its case study, this book argues that if a democratic community is to survive over time, its people must choose to go on together. That choice often entails hardship and hard bargains. In good times, going on together presents few dif...

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Ober, Josiah,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2005
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Chapter One. Introduction: Climbing the Hill of Ares
  • Chapter Two. Classical Athenian Democracy and Democracy Today
  • Chapter Three. Historical Legacies: Moral Authority and the Useable Past
  • Chapter Four. Culture, Thin Coherence, and the Persistence of Politics
  • Chapter Five. Quasi Rights: Participatory Citizenship and Negative Liberties
  • Chapter Six. The Athenian Debate over Civic Education
  • Chapter Seven. Living Freely as a Slave of the Law: Why Socrates Lives in Athens
  • Chapter Eight. Social Science History, Cultural History, and the Amnesty of 403 B.C.
  • Chapter Nine. Greek Horoi: Artifactual Texts and the Contingency of Meaning
  • Chapter Ten. Tyrant-Killing as Therapeutic Conflict: A Political Debate in Images and Texts
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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