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Athens Victorious
- Democracy in Plato's Republic
Engelsk Paperback
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Athens Victorious
- Democracy in Plato's Republic
Engelsk Paperback

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Plato''s Republic is typically thought to recommend a form of government that, from our current perspective, seems perniciously totalitarian. Athens Victorious demonstrates that Plato intended quite the opposite: to demonstrate the superiority of a democratic constitution. Greg Recco provides a brilliant rereading of Book Eight. Often considered an anticlimax, Book Eight seems to be a mere catalogue of mistakes but is in fact one of Plato''s most neglected literary creations: a mythic or epic restaging of the Peloponnesian War that pitted Sparta''s militaristic oligarchy against Athens'' democracy. In Plato''s reenactment, Athens wins. Recco argues that the values identified in Book Eight as distinctively democratic were the very ones that served as the unannounced touchstones of moral and political judgment throughout the dialogue. Athens Victorious is an important reinterpretation of The Republic. It is an excellent resource for students and scholars of Classical studies, philosophy, and political theory.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
262
ISBN-13:
9780739123270
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
0739123270
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Udg. Dato:
30 dec 2009
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
153mm
Højde:
227mm
Forlag:
Lexington Books
Oplagsdato:
30 dec 2009
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