Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 400 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781118561607
,
9781118561676
,
1299448895
,
9781299448896
,
9781118561904
Series Statement:
Ancient world
Content:
The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy presents a series of essays that trace the Greeks' path to democracy and examine the connection between the Greek polis as a citizen state and democracy as well as the interaction between democracy and various forms of cultural expression from a comparative historical perspective and with special attention to the place of Greek democracy in political thought and debates about democracy throughout the centuries. Presents an original combination of a close synchronic and long diachronic examination of the Greek polis - city-states that gave rise to the first democratic system of government Offers a detailed study of the close interactionbetween democracy, society, and the arts in ancient Greece Places the invention of democracy in fifth-century bce Athens both in its broad social and cultural context and in the context of the re-emergence of democracy in the modern world Reveals the role Greek democracy played in the political and intellectual traditions that shaped modern democracy, and in the debates about democracy in modern social, political, and philosophical thought Written collaboratively by an international team of leading scholars in classics, ancient history, sociology, and political science.
Content:
Intro -- The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy: A Politico-cultural Transformation and Its Interpretations -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- References -- PART I The Greek Experience in Long-term Perspective -- 1 Exploring the Greek Needle's Eye: Civilizational and Political Transformations -- Intercivilizational Connections -- Aspects of the Polis -- Cultural Extensions of the Political -- Between Monarchy and Community -- The Transformation of the Political: with Meier against Meier -- Politics and the Political -- Religion and the Political -- Greece in the Axial World -- Note -- References -- 2 Transformations of Democracy: Towards a History of Political Thought and Practice in Long-term Perspective -- Ancient Athens and Our Present: From Evolution Towards Discontinuity -- A Democratic Revolution Around 1800? -- "Democracy" After the Democratic Revolution -- Democratic Thought at the Time of "Democratization" -- Action and Representation: Size and Self-understanding of Ancient and Modern Democracy -- The Instituting and the Instituted: Stability and Change in Democracy -- Exclusion and Inclusion: The Relation Between Political Citizenship and Economic Involvement -- Conclusion: the Greeks and Us -- Notes -- References -- PART II Ways of Polis-making: Grasping the Novelty of the Political -- 3 To Act with Good Advice: Greek Tragedy and the Democratic Political Sphere -- The "Political Sphere," the Risk of Acting, and Tragedy -- Origin and Political Function of Tragedy -- Acting Too Quickly -- Ill-advised Action: Creon and Oedipus -- The Riddle and the Oracle -- Antigone and Orestes: Personal Autonomy, the Climax of Aboulia, and the Recognition of Human Fallibility -- No Certainty Anywhere: The Fragility of euboulia -- Abbreviation -- Notes -- References.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction
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Part I. The Greek Experience in Long-term Perspective ; Exploring the Greek Needle's Eye : Civilizational and Political Transformations
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Transformations of Democracy : Towards a History of Political Thought and Practice in Long-term Perspective
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Part II. Ways of Polis-making : Grasping the Novelty of the Political ; To Act with Good Advice : Greek Tragedy and the Democratic Political Sphere
,
Democracy and Dissent : The Case of Comedy
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Democracy, Oratory, and the Rise of Historiography in Fifth-century Greece
,
Political Uses of Rhetoric in Democratic Athens
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Law and Democracy in Classical Athens
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Democracy and Political Philosophy : Influences, Tensions, Rapprochement
,
Inscriptions and the City in Democratic Athens
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Part III. Changing a Way of Life : Democracy's Impact on polis-Society ; The Impact of Democracy on Communal Life
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The Participation of the demos in Decision-Making : Principles and Reality
,
Democracy and Religion in Classical Greece
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Democracy and War
,
Part IV. Political Concepts and Commitments ; Perfecting the Political Creature (z?ion politikon) : Equality and "the Political" in the Evolution of Greek Democracy
,
Tyranny and Tragedy in Nietzsche's Understanding of the Greek polis
,
The Liberty of the Moderns Compared to the Liberty of the Ancients
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781444351064
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Greek polis and the invention of democracy Chichester [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 ISBN 9781444351064
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1444351060
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Political Science
Keywords:
Griechenland
;
Polis
;
Demokratisierung
Author information:
Raaflaub, Kurt A. 1941-2023
Author information:
Jóhann Páll Árnason 1940-
