Aristotle: Politics, Books V and VI

Zusatztext Keyt's translation is excellent both in accuracy and fluency. The commentary is comprehensive. Keyt explores the meaning of the text, probes the logic of arguments, supplies the linguistic and cultural context, explains the known historical references, and cites relevant parallel texts of Aristotle ... This series of translations and commentaries is likely to remain the standard for a long time. Klappentext David Keyt presents a clear and accurate new translation of the the fifth and sixth books of Aristotle's Politics, together with a philosophical and historical commentary. The Politics is a key document in Western political thought; it raises and discusses many political issues, theoretical and practical, which are still widely debated today. The major topics of these two books are equality, democracy, tyranny, revolution, and reform. Zusammenfassung Aristotle discusses many political issues in "Politics", theoretical and practical - revolution and reform, democracy and tyranny, and freedom and equality. A commentary is provided which, though primarily philosophical, also supplies a key to Aristotle's historical references. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Translation; Commentary; Bibliography; Glossary; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Aristotle, David Keyt
• Assisted by: J L Ackrill (Editor), J. L. Ackrill (Editor), David Keyt (Editor), David Keyt (Translation), David Keyt (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.01.1999
• EAN: 9780198235354
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823535-4
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Clarendon Aristotle Series; Clarendon Aristotle; Clarendon Aristotle Series; Clarendon Aristotle
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day