Brill's Companion to the Legacy of Greek Political Thought

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-67933-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 502 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 973 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to Philosophy / Brill's Companions to Philosophy: Ancient Philosophy

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Carter, David

Foxley, Rachel

Sawyer, Liz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Demokratia 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.