The ship of state : statecraft and politics from ancient Greece to democratic America /
Thompson provides a new perspective on the development of political thought from Homer to Machiavelli, Tocqueville, and Gertrude Stein (who is introduced here, for the first time, as a writer of political significance). Providing nuanced readings of key texts by these and other thinkers, it locates...
| Основен автор: | Thompson, Norma, 1959- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New Haven :
Yale University Press,
℗♭2001.
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Print version::
Ship of state. |
Съдържание:
- ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""PART 1. The Polis""; ""Chapter One�Stories at the Limits""; ""Homer and the Origins of the Polis""; ""Thucydides� Athens""; ""Aristotle�s New Founding""; ""Chapter Two�Plato�s Socrates""; ""PART 2. The State""; ""Chapter Three�The Rhetoric of the State""; ""Machiavelli�s Lucrezia""; ""Burke�s Queen of France""; ""Shelley�s Monster""; ""Chapter Four�Rousseau/Tutor""; ""PART 3. Democratic America""; ""Chapter Five�Surveying Tocqueville""; ""Chapter Six�Gertrude Stein�s Socrates""; ""Conclusion: Redressing the Balance""
- ""Afterword�The Ship of State: The Political Metaphor and Its Fate""""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""