Studies on the reception of Plato and Greek political thought in Victorian Britain
By: Kyriakos Demetriou
Series: Collected studies -- CS971; Collected studies -- CS971.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409420514
Subjects: Study and teaching; Ancient Philosophy; Influence; Philosophy; Politische Philosophie; Classical influences; Rezeption; Political science; Platonists; Classicists; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The history of Ancient Greece. In defence of the British constitution : theoretical implications of the debate over Athenian democracy in Britain, 1770-1850 ; Bishop Connop Thirlwall : historian of ancient Greece ; Victorian classicists and modern Greece : a critical commentary on periodical sources; title: Platonic studies. Grote on Socrates : an unpublished essay of the 1820s in its context ; The development of Platonic studies in Britain and the role of utilitarians ; George Grote and the Platonic revival in Victorian Britain ; Socratic dialectic and the exaltation of individuality : J.S. Mill's influence on G. Grote's Platonic interpretation ; The revival of a legend : the debate over Plato in nineteenth-century Britain ; The sophists, democracy, and modern interpretation.