Brill's Companion to the Legacy of Greek Political Thought /
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...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
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Brill's Companions to Philosophy ;
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Call Number: Z6207.G7 DE3
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.