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Author : M. I. Finley
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-05
Democracy Ancient And Modern written by M. I. Finley and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-05 with Political Science categories.
Western democracy is now at a critical juncture. Some worry that power has been wrested from the people and placed in the hands of a small political elite. Others argue that the democratic system gives too much power to a populace that is largely ill-informed and easily swayed by demagogues. This classic study of democratic principles is thus now more relevant than ever. A renowned historian of antiquity and political philosophy, Sir M.I. Finley offers a comparative analysis of Greek and modern conceptions of democracy. As he puts the ancient Greeks in dialogue with their contemporary counterparts, Finley tackles some of the most pressing issues of our day, including public apathy, partisanship, consensus politics, distrust of professional politicians, and the limits of free speech. Including three lectures that Finley delivered at Rutgers University, plus two additional essays that further illuminate his thinking, Democracy Ancient and Modern explores the dramatic differences between the close-knit civil society of the ancient Greeks and our own atomized mass societies. By mapping out democracy’s past and its present manifestations, this book helps us plot a course for democracy’s future.
Ancient And Modern Democracy
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Author : Wilfried Nippel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015
Ancient And Modern Democracy written by Wilfried Nippel and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
A comprehensive account of Athenian democracy as a subject of criticism, admiration and scholarly debate since 2,500 years, covering the features of Athenian democracy, its importance for the English, American and French revolutions and for the debates on democracy and political liberty from the nineteenth century to the present.
The Tradition Of Ancient Greek Democracy And Its Importance For Modern Democracy
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Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
language : en
Publisher: Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
Release Date : 2005
The Tradition Of Ancient Greek Democracy And Its Importance For Modern Democracy written by Mogens Herman Hansen and has been published by Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Athens (Greece) categories.
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Author : Moses I. Finley
language : en
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Release Date : 1973-01-01
Democracy Ancient And Modern written by Moses I. Finley and has been published by Chatto & Windus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973-01-01 with Athens (Greece) categories.
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language : en
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Release Date : 2014
Democracy Ancient And Modern written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Athens (Greece) categories.
Basic Ideas Of Ancient Greek Democracy And Their Relevance For Modern Conceptions Of Democracy
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Author : Lisa Wegener
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2008-10
Basic Ideas Of Ancient Greek Democracy And Their Relevance For Modern Conceptions Of Democracy written by Lisa Wegener and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10 with categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, University of Applied Sciences Bremen, course: Democracy: Theory and Practice, 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The fascination that springs from the first democratic polity of history, the ancient polis of Attica, remains undaunted right up to now and the examination of this alluring topic will certainly occupy future scientists as well. The main questions are: How - and most of all why - did democracy develop at this time and at this place? How was this political system organised? And what lessons can we draw from the rise and fall of the Athenian democracy? In the following, I am going to touch some of these issues while analysing what the basic ideas of Athenian democracy looked like, comparing the ancient with the modern understanding and investigating to what extent they might be relevant to current theories of democracy. Thus, I am going to concentrate more on the abstract, intellectual foundations of the political system than on concrete manifestations like institutions and procedures. From my point of view, this approach appears to be more advantageous anyway because the formal frame could only be applied much harder to modern states than general ideas might be. As the basic ideas which led to the genesis and shaped the form of democracy may be considered the power of the people (commonly known as the rule of the people but I am going to show why this is not the appropriate translation), equality, liberty and the rule of law. After having examined the nature and consequences of these concepts, I am going to summarise my results.
Demokratia
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Author : Josiah Ober
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-09
Demokratia written by Josiah Ober and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-09 with History categories.
This book is the result of a long and fruitful conversation among practitioners of two very different fields: ancient history and political theory. The topic of the conversation is classical Greek democracy and its contemporary relevance. The nineteen contributors remain diverse in their political commitments and in their analytic approaches, but all have engaged deeply with Greek texts, with normative and historical concerns, and with each others' arguments. The issues and tensions examined here are basic to both history and political theory: revolution versus stability, freedom and equality, law and popular sovereignty, cultural ideals and social practice. While the authors are sharply critical of many aspects of Athenian society, culture, and government, they are united by a conviction that classical Athenian democracy has once again become a centrally important subject for political debate. The contributors are Benjamin R. Barber, Alan Boegehold, Paul Cartledge, Susan Guettel Cole, W. Robert Connor, Carol Dougherty, J. Peter Euben, Mogens H. Hansen, Victor D. Hanson, Carnes Lord, Philip Brook Manville, Ian Morris, Martin Ostwald, Kurt Raaflaub, Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, Barry S. Strauss, Robert W. Wallace, Sheldon S. Wolin, and Ellen Meiksins Wood.
Ancient Democracy And Modern Ideology
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Author : P. J. Rhodes
language : en
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Release Date : 2003-07-17
Ancient Democracy And Modern Ideology written by P. J. Rhodes and has been published by Bristol Classical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-17 with Fiction categories.
How should we study the democracy of classical Athens? Attitudes to Athenian democracy have always been affected by the circumstances of those studying it. This text examines the different approaches to its study and argues that objectivity should be strived for.
The Athenian Revolution
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Author : Josiah Ober
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-01
The Athenian Revolution written by Josiah Ober and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-01 with History categories.
Where did "democracy" come from, and what was its original form and meaning? Here Josiah Ober shows that this "power of the people" crystallized in a revolutionary uprising by the ordinary citizens of Athens in 508-507 B.C. He then examines the consequences of the development of direct democracy for upper-and lower-class citizens, for dissident Athenian intellectuals, and for those who were denied citizenship under the new regime (women, slaves, resident foreigners), as well as for the general development of Greek history. When the citizens suddenly took power into their own hands, they changed the cultural and social landscape of Greece, thereby helping to inaugurate the Classical Era. Democracy led to fundamental adjustments in the basic structures of Athenian society, altered the forms and direction of political thinking, and sparked a series of dramatic reorientations in international relations. It quickly made Athens into the most powerful Greek city-state, but it also fatally undermined the traditional Greek rules of warfare. It stimulated the development of the Western tradition of political theorizing and encouraged a new conception of justice that has striking parallels to contemporary theories of rights. But Athenians never embraced the notions of inherency and inalienability that have placed the concept of rights at the center of modern political thought. Thus the play of power that constituted life in democratic Athens is revealed as at once strangely familiar and desperately foreign, and the values sustaining the Athenian political community as simultaneously admirable and terrifying.
Democracy
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Author : Paul Cartledge
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Democracy written by Paul Cartledge and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
"Democracy: A Life holds out three unique research aims: a proper understanding of the origins and variety of ancient Greek democracies; a detailed account of the fate of democracy - both the institution and the word - in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds from the fifth century BCE to the 6th century CE; and a nuanced exploration of the ways in which all ancient Greek democracies differed from all modern so-called 'democracies'"--