Aristotle's Politics: Critical Essays

by Jonathan Barnes (Contribution by), John M. Cooper (Contribution by), Dorothea Frede (Contribution by), Stephen Taylor Holmes (Contribution by), David Keyt (Contribution by)

Overview

Aristotle's Politics is widely recognized as one of the classics of the history of political philosophy, and like every other such masterpiece, it is a work about which there is deep division. Many readers of Aristotle are uncertain whether his Politics has any contribution to make to contemporary debates about political life and political theory. The essays in this volume aim to address, implicitly or explicitly, this very question about the relevance of Arisotle's thinking in contemporary political philosophy. Written by leading scholars in lucid and accessible style, the nine essays in this volume will be a critical resource for newcomers to Aristotle.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742584044
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	10/12/2005
Series:	Critical Essays on the Classics Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	711 KB

About the Author

Richard Kraut is the chair of the Department of philosophy at Northwestern University
Stephen Skultety is a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Aristippus in and out of Athens
Chapter 2 Aristotle's Social Science
Chapter 3 Political Animals and Civic Friendship
Chapter 4 Ideology and Philosophy in Aristotle's Theory of Slavery
Chapter 5 Property Rights in Aristotle
Chapter 6 The Wisdom of the Multitude: Some Reflections on Book 3 of Aristotle's Politics, Chapter 11
Chapter 7 Citizenship in Aristotle's Politics
Chapter 8 Aristotle and Political Liberty
Chapter 9 Aristotle and Anarchism
Chapter 10 Aristotle's Natural Democracy

Editorial Reviews

This fine collection of provocative essays by distinguished and theoretically diverse authors explores the contributions Aristotle's Politics makes to contemporary debates about political life and political theory. Keenly philosophical, historically nuanced, and often helpfully at odds with one another, these essays will be illuminating for all students of politics, ancient and modern.” —Jill Frank, University of South Carolina

“The collection displays a wide range of methodological approaches to historical texts.” —2007, Political Theory

“This is a terrific collection of some of the best scholarship on Aristotle's Politics. It will be valuable for both students and researchers.” —Christopher Bobonich, C.I. Lewis Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University

From the Publisher

This is a terrific collection of some of the best scholarship on Aristotle's Politics. It will be valuable for both students and researchers.

Christopher Bobonich

This fine collection of provocative essays by distinguished and theoretically diverse authors explores the contributions Aristotle's Politics makes to contemporary debates about political life and political theory. Keenly philosophical, historically nuanced, and often helpfully at odds with one another, these essays will be illuminating for all students of politics, ancient and modern.

Jill Frank

The collection displays a wide range of methodological approaches to historical texts. 2007

Political Theory

The collection displays a wide range of methodological approaches to historical texts.

Political Theory - 2007