Citizens and Statesmen

A Study of Aristotle's Politics

AvMary P. Nichols

Häftad, Engelska, 1991

Del i serien Perspectives on Classical Political and Social Thought

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Beskrivning

Two important criticisms of contemporary liberalism turn to Aristotle's political thought for support - that which advocates participatory democracy, and that sympathetic to the rule of a virtuous or philosophic elite. In this commentary on Aristotle's politics the author explores how Aristotle offers political rule as an alternative to both the rule of aristocratic virtue and an unchecked participatory democracy. Writing in lucid prose, she offers an interpretation grounded in a close reading of the text, and combining a respectful and patient attempt to understand Aristotle in his own terms with a wide, sympathetic, and argumentative reading in the secondary literature.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1991-11-22
Mått:149 x 227 x 14 mm
Vikt:331 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Perspectives on Classical Political and Social Thought
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780847677030

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Mary P. Nichols, Professor of Political Science at Fordham University, has written extensively on classical political theory and the history of political thought, including Socrates and the Political Community: An Ancient Debate (SUNY Press, 1987).

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Well worth study and reflection both as a fresh interpretation of the ^RPolitics^I and as a critical assessment of contemporary scholarship on Aristotle and modern political theory.

Innehållsförteckning

The origins of the city (Books I & II); finding a place for Beast and God (Book III); turning regimes into polities (Books IV, V, and VI); the best regime and the limits of politics (Books VII and VIII); citizens, statesmen, and modern political theory.