Athenian political thought and the reconstruction of American democracy

Athenian political thought and the reconstruction of American democracy / edited by J. Peter Euben, John R. Wallach, and Josiah Ober.

Other author/creator	Euben, J. Peter.
Other author/creator	Wallach, John R.
Other author/creator	Ober, Josiah.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1994.
Description	vi, 352 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Democracy--Greece --Athens --History. Democracy--United States. Democracy. Elite (Social sciences) Representative government and representation. Political participation. Political stability. Legitimacy of governments.

Contents	Norm and form: the constitutionalizing of democracy / Sheldon S. Wolin -- Democracy: an idea of amibiguous ancestry / Ellen Meiksins Wood -- The creation of a legacy: a manufactured crisis in eighteenth-century thought / Jennifer Roberts -- Democracy, power, and imperialism in fifth-century Athens / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- How to criticize democracy in late fifth- and fourth-century Athens / Josiah Ober -- Frank speech, democracy, and philosophy: Plato's debt to a democratic strategy of civic discourse / S. Sara Monoson -- Democracy and political theory: a reading of Plato's Gorgias / J. Peter Euben -- The tragedy of critical theory / Christopher Rocco -- The melting pot, the mosaic, and the Agora / Barry S. Strauss -- Athenian political thought and the feminist politics of poiesis and praxis / Warren J. Lane and Ann M. Lane -- The zero degree of society: Aritstotle and the Athenian citizen / Charles W. Hedrick, Jr. -- Two democracies and virtue / John R. Wallach.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-346) and index.
LCCN	94018797
ISBN	0801429803 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0801481791 (paper : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	JC79.A8 A86 1994	✔ Available	Place Hold