Overview

A wealth of political literature has survived from Greek antiquity, from political theory by Plato and Aristotle to the variety of prose and verse texts that more broadly demonstrate political thinking. However, despite the extent of this legacy, it can be surprisingly hard to say how ancient Greek political thought makes its influence felt, or whether this influence has been sustained across the centuries. This volume includes a range of disciplinary responses to issues surrounding the legacy of Greek political thought, exploring the ways in which political thinking has evolved from antiquity to the present day.

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Author:   David Carter ,  Rachel Foxley ,  Liz Sawyer
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   8
Weight:   0.973kg
ISBN:  

9789004679337

ISBN 10:   9004679332
Pages:   502
Publication Date:   26 September 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Notes on contributors Introduction Part 1: The Reproduction of Greek Political Thought 1 Sovereignty, Rebellion and Golden Age: Hesiod’s Legacy  Ioannis D. Evrigenis 2 ‘The most politic historiographer’: Thucydides and Political Thought  Neville Morley 3 Platonic Revivalists? The Cases of Simone Weil and Leo Strauss  Robert A. Ballingall Part 2: Greek Thought in New Environments 4 Athenian Democracy and Its Critics in Republican Rome  Jed W. Atkins 5 Greek Legacies in the English Republic: John Milton and James Harrington  Rachel Foxley 6 Thinking about the Public Realm in Early Sixteenth-Century France: Plutarch and Geoffroy Tory  Rebecca Kingston 7 Greek Political Thought and Modern Ideas of Liberty  Paschalis M. Kitromilides 8 No Trojan Horses: the Legacy of Greek Political Thought in the Early American Republic  Arlene W. Saxonhouvi Contents 9 Islamic Political Thought and the Greek Legacy: the Social Covenant and Charismatic Authority  Vasileios Syros Part 3: Variation and Adaptation 10 Grotius, Hobbes and Rawls: Aristotelian Justice and Social Contract Theory  Alan Cromartie 11 ‘The relevance of relevance’: Trends in Higher Education and the Legacy of Greek Political Thought in England and the USA, 1900–1970  Liz Sawyer 12 Plato’s Political Works in Nineteenth-Century Polish Thought  Tomasz Mróz 13 Classicising the Radical Imaginary: the Legacy of Athens in the Thought of Cornelius Castoriadis and Jacques Rancière  Carol Atack Part 4: Greek Thought and the Potential for Dissent 14 Democracy’s Forgotten Futures and the Greek Political Legacy or, What Histories of Dēmokratia Do Contemporary Critiques of Democracy Need?  Alexandra Lianeri 15 Social Theory and the Politics of Recognition in the Writings of Aristotle  Tony Burns 16 The Political Legacies of Greek Tragedy: Building the Beautiful City, and Being Thrown out of It  Barbara Goff Index

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David Carter teaches Classics at the University of Reading. He is the author of The Politics of Greek Tragedy (2007) and editor of Why Athens? A Reappraisal of Tragic Politics (2011). Rachel Foxley is Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Reading. She is the author of The Levellers: Radical Political Thought in the English Revolution (2013) and has written widely on classical republicanism in the seventeenth century. Liz Sawyer was an Associate Researcher at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies at Oxford University until 2021. Her translation of selected writings by Plutarch is forthcoming in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series.

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