The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy A Politico-cultural Transformation and Its Interpretations
by Arnason, Johann P.; Raaflaub, Kurt A.; Wagner, PeterEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2013-05-06
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
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 from a comparative historical perspective, and with reference to recent debates on the Axial Age and its impact on world history. 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
Author Biography
Johann P. Arnason is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne and visiting professor at the Charles University in Prague. His previous works include Domains and Divisions of European History (with N. Doyle, 2010), The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (with K. Raaflaub, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), and Nordic Paths to Modernity (with B. Wittrock, 2012).
Kurt A. Raaflaub is the David Herlihy University Professor and Professor of Classics and History Emeritus at Brown University. His previous works include Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies (with R. J. A. Talbert, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), Epic and History (with D. Konstan, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), and The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (with J. Arnason, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).
Peter Wagner is ICREA Research Professor of Sociological Theory, Philosophy of Law, and Methodology of the Social Sciences, at the University of Barcelona. His previous works include Theorizing Modernity: Inescapability and Attainability in Social Theory (2001), Modernity as Experience and Interpretation (2008), and Modernity: Understanding the Present (2012).
Table of Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub, and Peter Wagner
Part I: The Greek Experience in Long-term Perspective
Chapter 1
Exploring the Greek Needle's Eye: Civilizational and Political Transformations
Johann P. Arnason
Chapter 2
Transformations of Democracy: Towards a History of Political Thought and Practice in Long-term Perspective
Peter Wagner
Part II: Ways of Polis-making: Grasping the Novelty of the Political
Chapter 3
To Act with Good Advice: Greek Tragedy and the Democratic Political Sphere
Egon Flaig
Chapter 4
Democracy and Dissent: The Case of Comedy
Lucio Bertelli
Chapter 5
Democracy, Oratory, and the Rise of Historiography in Fifth-century Greece
Jonas Grethlein
Chapter 6
Political Uses of Rhetoric in Democratic Athens
Harvey Yunis
Chapter 7
Law and Democracy in Classical Athens
Adriaan Lanni
Chapter 8
Democracy and Political Philosophy: Influences, Tensions, Rapprochement
Ryan Balot
Chapter 9
Inscriptions and the City in Democratic Athens
Elizabeth Meyer
Part III: Changing a Way of Life: Democracy’s Impact on polis-Society
Chapter 10
The Impact of Democracy on Communal Life
Sara Forsdyke
Chapter 11
The Participation of the demos in Decision-Making: Principles and Reality
Claude Mossé
Chapter 12
Democracy and Religion in Classical Greece
Robin Osborne
Chapter 13
Democracy and War
Lawrence A. Tritle
Part IV: Political Concepts and Commitments
Chapter 14
Perfecting the Political Creature (z?ion politikon): Equality and “the Political” in the Evolution of Greek Democracy
Kurt A. Raaflaub
Chapter 15
Tyranny and Tragedy in Nietzsche’s Understanding of the Greek polis
Tracy Strong
Chapter 16
The Liberty of the Moderns Compared to the Liberty of the Ancients
Nathalie Karagiannis and Peter Wagner
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