Brill's Companion to the Reception of Athenian Democracy : From the Late Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era /

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Athenian Democracy : From the Late Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era /

The first ever guide to the reception of classical Athenian democracy, Brill's Companion to the Reception of Athenian Democracy delivers a fresh and wide-ranging analysis of the uses and reinterpretations of ancient Greek democracy from the late Middle Ages to the XXI century. The book's f...

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Other Authors: Piovan, Dino (Editor), Giorgini, Giovanni (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Series: Brill's Companions to Philosophy ; 07.
Brill's Companions to Classical Studies Online V, ISBN: 9789004420878.

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Philosophy.

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Call Number: D16.8

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • John Dunn
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Dino Piovan & Giovanni Giorgini
  • PART 1
  • An Introduction to Athenian Democracy and Its Reception
  • 1 The Nature of Athenian Democracy
  • Mogens H. Hansen
  • PART 2
  • The Reception of Athenian Democracy: Ages, Countries, Scholarship
  • 2 Athenian Democracy in Late Middle Ages and Early Humanism
  • Gabriele Pedullà
  • 3 Athenian Democracy in the Italian Renaissance
  • Gabriele Pedullà
  • 4 Hobbes, Thucydides and Athenian Democracy
  • Luca Iori
  • 5 The Reception of Athenian Democracy in French Culture from Enlightenment to the Second Empire
  • Pascal Payen
  • 6 Athens and the Founders of American Republic
  • Carl J. Richard
  • 7 The Character of Democracy
  •   Grote's Athens and Its Legacy
  • James Kierstead
  • 8 German Evaluations of Athenian Democracy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  • Wilfried Nippel
  • 9 Liberty Ancient and Modern in Twentieth-Century Italy
  • Between Classical Scholarship and Political Theory
  • Dino Piovan
  • PART 3
  • Modern Philosophy in the Face of Athenian Democracy
  • 10 What Has Marxism Got to Do with Ancient Athens?
  • Marx and Marxist Historiography on Ancient Democracy
  • Carlo Marcaccini
  • 11 The Philosopher and the City
  •   Leo Strauss's Reading of Athenian Democracy
  • Giovanni Giorgini
  • 12 "The Political Sphere of Life, Where Speech Rules Supreme"
  • Hannah Arendt's Imaginative Reception of Athenian Democracy
  • Olivia Guaraldo
  • 13 Philosophy as a Political Praxis
  • Foucault's Use of the Classics
  • Giovanni Leghissa
  • PART 4
  • Athenian Democracy and Contemporary Political Science
  • 14 Classical Athens as an Epistemic Democracy
  • Josh Ober
  • 15 Sortition and Politics
  • From Radical to Deliberative Democracy?
  • Yves Sintomer
  • General Index of Names and Subjects.