Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstitution of American Democracy /

Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstitution of American Democracy / / ed. by John R. Wallach, J. Peter Euben, Josiah Ober.

In the contemporary United States the image and experience of Athenian democracy has been appropriated to justify a profoundly conservative political and educational agenda. Such is the conviction expressed in this provocative book, which is certain to arouse widespread comment and discussion.What d...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Euben, J. Peter,
Hedrick, Charles W.,
Lane, Ann M.,
Lane, Warren J.,
Monoson, S. Sara,
Ober, Josiah,
Raaflaub, Kurt A.,
Roberts, Jennifer,
Rocco, Christopher,
Strauss, Barry S.,
Wallach, John R.,
Wolin, Sheldon S.,
Wood, Ellen Meiksins,
HerausgeberIn:
Euben, J. Peter,
Ober, Josiah,
Wallach, John R.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1995
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • I. Democracy and Regimes of Power
  • 1. Norm and Form: The Constitutionalizing of Democracy
  • 2. Democracy: An Idea of Ambiguous Ancestry
  • 3. The Creation of a Legacy: A Manufactured Crisis in Eighteenth-Century Thought
  • 4. Democracy, Power, and Imperialism in Fifth-Century Athens
  • II. Critical Discourse in Athenian Democracy
  • 5· How to Criticize Democracy in Late Fifth- and Fourth-Century Athens
  • 6. Frank Speech, Democracy, and Philosophy: Plato's Debt to a Democratic Strategy of Civic Discourse
  • 7. Democracy and Political Theory: A Reading of Plato's Gorgias
  • III. Athenian Ideals and Contemporary Issues
  • 8. The Tragedy of Critical Theory
  • 9. The Melting Pot, the Mosaic, and the Agora
  • 10. Athenian Political Thought and the Feminist Politics of Poiesis and Praxis
  • 11. The Zero Degree of Society: Aristotle and the Athenian Citizen
  • 12. Two Democracies and Virtue
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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