Title: Athenian political thought and the reconstruction of American democracy /
Authors: Euben, J. Peter.; Wallach, John.; Ober, Josiah
Publisher: Cornell University Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: 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 ambiguous 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, Ann M. Lane -- The zero degree of society : Aristotle and the Athenian citizen / Charles W. Hedrick, Jr. -- Two democracies and virtue / John R. Wallach.