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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Athenian Democracy : From the Late Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era
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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Athenian Democracy : From the Late Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era / edited by Dino Piovan, Giovanni Giorgini.
ISBN
9789004443006
9789004276512
Publication
Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2020.
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1 online resource.
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Summary
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 first section explores this history from the rediscovery of classical antiquity in the Renaissance in different countries (England, France, Germany, Italy, American Republic) and ages, while the second section focuses on philosophical movements such as Marxism and on contemporary philosophers such as Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault; the last section examines the reception from the perspective of current political science. The book offers a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to this important topic by bringing together internationally recognised scholars from a variety of disciplines, including ancient and modern historians, historians of political thought, political philosophers, and political scientists.
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From the Late Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era
Brill's companions in classical studies online V.
Other formats
Print version: Brill's Companion to the Reception of Athenian Democracy : From the Late Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era, Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2020
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 23, 2023
Series
Brill's Companions to Philosophy ; 07
Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online V, ISBN: 9789004420878
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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