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Dick Howard 
The Primacy of the Political 
A History of Political Thought from the Greeks to the French and American Revolutions

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The conflict between politics and antipolitics has replayed throughout Western history and philosophical thought. From the beginning, Plato’s quest for absolute certainty led him to denounce democracy, an anti-political position challenged by Aristotle. In his wide-ranging narrative, Dick Howard puts this dilemma into fresh perspective, proving our contemporary political problems are not as unique as we think.
Howard begins with democracy in ancient Greece and the rise and fall of republican politics in Rome. In the wake of Rome’s collapse, political thought searched for a new medium, and the conflict between politics and antipolitics reemerged through the contrasting theories of Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas. During the Renaissance and Reformation, the emergence of the modern individual again transformed the terrain of the political. Even so, politics vs. antipolitics dominated the period, frustrating even Machiavelli, who sought to reconceptualize the nature of political thought. Hobbes and Locke, theorists of the social contract, then reenacted the conflict, which Rousseau sought (in vain) to overcome. Adam Smith and the growth of modern economic liberalism, the radicalism of the French revolution, and the conservative reaction of Edmund Burke subsequently marked the triumph of antipolitics, while the American Revolution momentarily offered the potential for a renewal of politics. Taken together, these historical examples, viewed through the prism of philosophy, reveal the roots of today’s political climate and the trajectory of battles yet to come.

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A Note to the Reader
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Democracy and the Renewal of Political Thought
1. The Rise and Fall of Athenian Democracy
2. The Rise and Fall of Roman Republicanism
3. The Conflict of the Sacred and the Secular
4. Facing the Challenge of Modernity
5. Modern Individualism and Political Obligation
6. The End of Political Philosophy?
Conclusion: Elements for a Democratic Renewal
Notes
Glossary
Index

关于作者

Dick Howard is distinguished professor of philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the author of numerous books in French and English, including
The Specter of Democracy: What Marx and Marxists Haven’t Understood and Why,
From Marx to Kant,
Defining the Political, and
The Birth of American Political Thought.
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● ISBN 9780231509756 ● 文件大小 17.0 MB ● 出版者 Columbia University Press ● 市 New York ● 国家 US ● 发布时间 2010 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 2451303 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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