| Description |
vi, 352 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-346) and index. |
| Contents |
Norm and form: the constitutionalizing of democracy / Sheldon S. Wolin -- Democracy: an idea of amibiguous ancestry / Ellen Meiksins Wood -- The creation of a legacy: a manufactured crisis in eighteenth-century thought / Jennifer Roberts -- Democracy, power, and imperialism in fifth-century Athens / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- How to criticize democracy in late fifth- and fourth-century Athens / Josiah Ober -- Frank speech, democracy, and philosophy: Plato's debt to a democratic strategy of civic discourse / S. Sara Monoson -- Democracy and political theory: a reading of Plato's Gorgias / J. Peter Euben -- The tragedy of critical theory / Christopher Rocco -- The melting pot, the mosaic, and the Agora / Barry S. Strauss -- Athenian political thought and the feminist politics of poiesis and praxis / Warren J. Lane and Ann M. Lane -- The zero degree of society: Aritstotle and the Athenian citizen / Charles W. Hedrick, Jr. -- Two democracies and virtue / John R. Wallach. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Dr. James H. Poivan, Professor of History, Emeritus. |
| Subject |
Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- History.
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Democracy. |
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Greece -- Athens. |
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History. |
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Democracy -- United States.
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United States. |
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Democracy.
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Elite (Social sciences)
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Elite (Social sciences) |
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Representative government and representation.
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Representative government and representation. |
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Political participation.
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Political participation. |
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Political stability.
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Political stability. |
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Legitimacy of governments.
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Legitimacy of governments. |
| Indexed Term |
Democracy |
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Greece |
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United States |
| Added Author |
Euben, J. Peter.
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Wallach, John R.
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Ober, Josiah.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Athenian political thought and the reconstruction of American democracy. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994 (OCoLC)606208126 |
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Online version: Athenian political thought and the reconstruction of American democracy. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994 (OCoLC)624045621 |
| ISBN |
0801429803 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780801429804 cloth alkaline paper |
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0801481791 paper alkaline paper |
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9780801481796 paper alkaline paper |
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