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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Athenian Democracy
From the Late Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era
Series: - Brill's Companions to Philosophy: Ancient Philosophy, Volume: 7
- Brill's Companions to Philosophy, Volume: 7
The first ever guide to the reception of classical Athenian democracy, Brillâs Companion to the Reception of Athenian Democracy delivers a fresh and wide-ranging analysis of the uses and reinterpretations of ancient Greek democracy from the late Middle Ages to the XXI century. The bookâs first section explores this history from the rediscovery of classical antiquity in the Renaissance in different countries (England, France, Germany, Italy, American Republic) and ages, while the second section focuses on philosophical movements such as Marxism and on contemporary philosophers such as Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault; the last section examines the reception from the perspective of current political science.
The book offers a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to this important topic by bringing together internationally recognised scholars from a variety of disciplines, including ancient and modern historians, historians of political thought, political philosophers, and political scientists.
The book offers a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to this important topic by bringing together internationally recognised scholars from a variety of disciplines, including ancient and modern historians, historians of political thought, political philosophers, and political scientists.
Dino Piovan, Ph.D. (2009), University of Pisa, is adjunct professor of Greek at the University of Verona. He has published several articles and books on ancient Greek literature and history, and on the reception of the classics, including Memoria e oblio della guerra civile (2011) and Tucidide in Europa (2018); he is also co-author of Con parole alate, a history of ancient Greek literature (with texts) in three volumes (2020).
Giovanni Giorgini is Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of Bologna and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous essays on the history of political thought and contemporary liberal theory, including La città e il tiranno (1993), Liberalismi eretici (1999), I doni di Pandora (2002) and a translation of Plato's Politicus (2005); he has also co-edited The Roots of Respect (2017).
Giovanni Giorgini is Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of Bologna and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous essays on the history of political thought and contemporary liberal theory, including La città e il tiranno (1993), Liberalismi eretici (1999), I doni di Pandora (2002) and a translation of Plato's Politicus (2005); he has also co-edited The Roots of Respect (2017).
"Der Band, von ausgewiesenen Fachleuten verfasst, bietet eine zuverlässige Informationsgrundlage, reiche Literatur- und Registerangaben, die ein zentrales Rezeptionsfeld der Moderne erschlieÃen." - Hans Kloft Historische Zeitschrift 314, no.3 (2022)
Preface
ââJohn Dunn
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
ââDino Piovan & Giovanni Giorgini
PART 1
An Introduction to Athenian Democracy and Its Reception
1âThe Nature of Athenian Democracy
ââMogens Herman Hansen
PARTÂ 2
The Reception of Athenian Democracy:Â Ages, Countries, Scholarship
2âAthenian Democracy in Late Middle Ages and Early Humanism
ââGabriele PedullÃ
3âAthenian Democracy in the Italian Renaissance
ââGabriele PedullÃ
4âHobbes, Thucydides and Athenian Democracy
ââLuca Iori
5âThe Reception of Athenian Democracy in French Culture from the Enlightenment to the Second Empire
ââPascal Payen
6âAthens and the Founders of the American Republic
ââCarl J. Richard
7âThe Character of Democracy
 âGroteâs Athens and Its Legacy
ââJames Kierstead
8âGerman Evaluations of Athenian Democracy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
ââWilfried Nippel
9âLiberty Ancient and Modern in Twentieth-Century Italy
âBetween Classical Scholarship and Political Theory
ââDino Piovan
PARTÂ 3
Modern Philosophy in the Face of Athenian Democracy
10âWhat Has Marxism Got to Do with Ancient Athens?
âMarx and Marxist Historiography on Ancient Democracy
ââCarlo Marcaccini
11âThe Philosopher and the City
 âLeo Straussâs Reading of Athenian Democracy
ââGiovanni Giorgini
12 âThe Political Sphere of Life, Where Speech Rules Supremeâ
âHannah Arendtâs Imaginative Reception of Athenian Democracy
ââOlivia Guaraldo
13âPhilosophy as a Political Praxis
âFoucaultâs Use of the Classics
ââGiovanni Leghissa
PART 4
Athenian Democracy and Contemporary Political Science
14âClassical Athens as an Epistemic Democracy
ââJosh Ober
15âSortition and Politics
âFrom Radical to Deliberative Democracy?
ââYves Sintomer
âGeneral Index of Names and Subjects
The book is intended to serve non-specialist as well as undergraduate and postgraduate scholars and professional scholars with an interest in classical studies, reception studies, history of political thought, history of ideas, political philosophy and political science.