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Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought

by: Roberts, J.T.

Price: 95,00 EURO

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Category: Greek History
Code: 10883
ISBN-13: 9780691056975 / 978-0-691-05697-5
ISBN-10: 0691056978 / 0-691-05697-8
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: 1994
Publication Place: New Jersey
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 405
Book Condition: New

 

 

The Classical Athenians were the first to articulate and implement the notion that ordinary citizens of no particular affluence or education could make responsible political decisions. For this reason, reactions to Athenian democracy have long provided a prime Rorschach test for political thought. Whether praising Athens's government as the legitimizing ancestor of modern democracies or condemning it as mob rule, commentators throughout history have revealed much about their own notions of politics and society. In this book, Jennifer Roberts charts responses to Athenian democracy from Athens itself through the twentieth century, exploring a debate that touches upon historiography, ethics, political science, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, gender studies, and educational theory.

 

The Athenian experiment
The first attacks on Athenian democracy
Democracy and the philosophers
Roman adaptations
Recovering the Greeks
Monarchists and Republicans
The debate over Athens and Sparta
Athenian democracy in the age of revolutions
A shift in the sands
The turning of the tide
Athenians and others
Epilogue: the old and the new


Subjects:
Athene
Athens (Greece)
Democracia
Democracy
Democracy Greece Athens History
Democracy History
Democratie
Geschiedenis (vorm)
Greece Athens
Griekse oudheid
Historia antiga grecia (politica)
History
POLITICAL SCIENCE Political Ideologies Democracy
Political science
Political science History
Receptie
Westerse wereld
 

 
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Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought

by: Roberts, J.T.

  • ISBN-13: 9780691056975 / 978-0-691-05697-5
  • ISBN-03: 0691056978 / 0-691-05697-8
  • Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1994

Price: 95,00 EURO

(in stock)