Greek Tradition in Republican Thought

Informationen zum Autor Eric Nelson has been a Research Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and is currently a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows, Harvard University. This is his first book. Zusammenfassung The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought traces the influence of ancient Greek sources on the development of republican theory in Europe and America. It offers a substantial revision of standard narratives of the trajectory of republican political theory from the ancient to the modern world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Note on conventions; Introduction; 1. Greek nonsense in More's Utopia; 2. The Roman agrarian laws and Machiavelli's modi privati; 3. James Harrington and the 'balance of justice'; 4. 'Prolem cum matre creatam': the background to Montesquieu; 5. Montesquieu's Greek republics; 6. The Greek tradition and the American Founding; Coda: Tocqueville and the Greeks; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Nelson, Nelson Eric, Eric (Trinity College Nelson, Nelson Eric
• Assisted by: Quentin Skinner (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 13.02.2006
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9780521024280
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02428-0
• Pages: 320
• Series: Ideas in Context > 69; Ideas in Context
• Subjects: History of Ideas, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Political science & theory, Ancient History, Political science and theory, Ancient history: to c 500 CE