Demokratia: A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0691011087 ISBN 13: 9780691011080

Casa editrice: Princeton University Press, 1996

Riassunto

This book is the result of a long and fruitful conversation among practitioners of two very different fields: ancient history and political theory. The topic of the conversation is classical Greek democracy and its contemporary relevance. The nineteen contributors remain diverse in their political commitments and in their analytic approaches, but all have engaged deeply with Greek texts, with normative and historical concerns, and with each others' arguments. The issues and tensions examined here are basic to both history and political theory: revolution versus stability, freedom and equality, law and popular sovereignty, cultural ideals and social practice. While the authors are sharply critical of many aspects of Athenian society, culture, and government, they are united by a conviction that classical Athenian democracy has once again become a centrally important subject for political debate.

The contributors are Benjamin R. Barber, Alan Boegehold, Paul Cartledge, Susan Guettel Cole, W. Robert Connor, Carol Dougherty, J. Peter Euben, Mogens H. Hansen, Victor D. Hanson, Carnes Lord, Philip Brook Manville, Ian Morris, Martin Ostwald, Kurt Raaflaub, Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, Barry S. Strauss, Robert W. Wallace, Sheldon S. Wolin, and Ellen Meiksins Wood.

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"The excellent collection of essays edited by Ober and Hedrick rewards the reader with a state-of-the-art survey from different perspectives on the topic of ancient democracy: what characterizes all the essays is the constant attention to the lesson that modern democracy can learn from looking back to its ancestral model." --Political Studies

Contenuti:

	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
	Contributors
	Introduction: Democracies Ancient and Modern	3
	The Strong Principle of Equality and the Archaic Origins of Greek Democracy	19
	Shares and Rights: "Citizenship" Greek Style and American Style	49
	Transgression, Equality, and Voice	63
	The Ancient Athenian and the Modern Liberal View of Liberty as a Democratic Ideal	91
	Law, Freedom, and the Concept of Citizens' Rights in Democratic Athens	105
	Demos versus "We, the People": Freedom and Democracy Ancient and Modern	121
	Equalities and Inequalities in Athenian Democracy	139
	Comparatively Equal	175
	Athenian Equality: A Constant Surrounded by Flux	187
	Resistance to Change in the Law at Athens	203
	Civil Society, Dionysiac Festival, and the Athenian Democracy	217
	Oath Ritual and the Male Community at Athens	227
	Democratic Contradictions and the Synoptic Illusion of Euripides' Ion	249
	Aristotle and the Idea of Liberal Education	271
	Hoplites into Democrats: The Changing Ideology of Athenian Infantry	289
	The Athenian Trireme, School of Democracy	313
	Reading Democracy: "Socratic" Dialogues and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens	327
	Misreading Democracy: Peter Euben and the Gorgias	361
	Ancient Greek Democracy and the Modern Knowledge-Based Organization: Reflections on the Ideology of Two Revolutions	377
	Bibliography	401
	Index	449

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• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0691011087
• ISBN 13: 9780691011080
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 488
• Redattore: Ober Josiah