Eric Nelson (Cambridge Trinity College)

The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought

Herausgeber: Skinner, Quentin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Ideas in Context
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780521835459
• ISBN-10: 0521835453
• Artikelnr.: 21277293

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.