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Book SynopsisExplores the affinities between Socratic philosophy and Athenian democratic culture as a way to think about issues of politics and education, both ancient and modern. Drawing on Aristophanes' "Clouds", Sophocles' "Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannos", and Plato's "Apology of Socrates", this work develops a view of democratic political education.
Trade Review"In this wide-ranging study of political thought in classical Athens, Peter Euben locates Greek explorations of the civic community, and how one educates people for it, in the context of contemporary debates over higher education in the United States... [This] work, probing and reflective, with many surprising twists and turns, will spark quite enough (democratic) discussion and debate as it is."--American Journal of Philology
Table of ContentsPrefaceCh. IImploding the Canon: The Reform of Education and the War over Culture3Ch. IICorrupting Socrates32Ch. IIIThe Battle of Salamis and the Origins of Political Theory64Ch. IVDemocratic Accountability and Socratic Dialectic91Ch. VWhen There Are Gray Skies: Aristophanes' Clouds and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens109Ch. VIAntigone and the Languages of Politics139Ch. VIIOedipean Complexities and Political Science: Tragedy and the Search for Knowledge179Ch. VIIIThe Gorgias, Socratic Dialectic, and the Education of Democratic Citizens202Ch. IXThe Protagoras and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens229Index267
