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Informationen zum Autor Dick Howard is distinguished professor of philosophy at the State University of New York! Stony Brook. He is the author of numerous books in French and English! including The Specter of Democracy: What Marx and Marxists Haven't Understood and Why! From Marx to Kant! Defining the Political! and The Birth of American Political Thought. Klappentext The conflict between politics and antipolitics has replayed itself throughout Western history and philosophical thought. Plato's quest for absolute certainty led him to denounce political democracy! an anti-political position later challenged by Aristotle. This back-and-forth exchange came to a head at the time of the American and French revolutions. Through this wide-ranging narrative! Dick Howard throws new light on a recurring philosophical dilemma! proving our political problems are not as unique as we think. Inhaltsverzeichnis A Note to the ReaderAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Democracy and the Renewal of Political Thought1. The Rise and Fall of Athenian DemocracyThe Origins of Athenian DemocracyThe Ideal and the Reality of Athenian Democracy: Pericles' Funeral OrationPlato's Philosophical AntipoliticsAristotle and the Properly PoliticalPhilosophy Goes Private 2. The Rise and Fall of Roman RepublicanismLivy and the Origin of the Republican SpiritPolybius and the Structure of Republican Institutions Cicero and the Moral Theory of Republican PoliticsThe Empire Turns Inward: The Emergence of Pauline Christianity 3. The Conflict of the Sacred and the SecularThe Two Cities in Theory and PracticeThe Conflict of the Two Cities Becomes a Reality Natural Law and the Dynamic Integration of the Two CitiesPiety! Theology! and the Birth of Modern Man 4. Facing the Challenge of ModernityLuther's Soteriological Politics: Spiritual Democracy or Political ServitudeCalvin's Political Ecclesiology: Conservative RepublicanismMachiavelli's Political Realism: The Illusions of the Republican Prince 5. Modern Individualism and Political ObligationHobbes's Liberal Absolutism Locke's Constitutional LiberalismRousseau's Defensive Republicanism 6. The End of Political Philosophy?A Political Economy?The French Revolution and the Ambiguities of a Democratic RepublicThe Legitimacy of Conservatism? The United States as a Republican Democracy Conclusion: Elements for a Democratic RenewalNotesGlossaryIndex ...
