J Peter Euben
Biographic Data
| ID | 980938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Peter Euben |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Euben |
| SIGNATURE | EUBEN J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reading Democracy: “Socratic” Dialogues and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens
John Homer Schaar III (1928-2011)
Platonic Noise
Fugitive Theory
Fugitive Theory J. Peter Euben (bio) The new edition of Politics and Vision is, as holding it in one hand makes clear, a greatly expanded one. But is it also a revised edition, one that offers or outlines a revisioning of politics, of political theory, and of the polymorphous relations between them? If vision is, as the book’s opening chapter argues, the imagined anticipation of what is not yet present, an excess unintimidated by the supposedly s…
The Tragedy of Tragedy
There are good reasons to consider tragedy, especially Greek tragedy, a resource for current debates in international relations. This is not only because of the ethical and political dilemmas tragedy explores with such dramatic force, but because tragedy is a significant context for reading Thucydides with the political and literary acumen he demands. To ignore this context is to domesticate the ways tragedy challenges both our conventional readi…
Platonic Noise
Final Lecture: Political Freedom
So here we are; you at the end of the course, me at the end of 34 years of teaching at UCSC and 20 years of teaching Political Freedom. This seems an appropriate enough occasion for us to reflect together on teaching and being taught
The Polis, Globalization, and the Politics of Place
Corrupting Youth: Political Education, Democratic Culture, and Political Theory
In Corrupting Youth , Peter Euben explores the affinities between Socratic philosophy and Athenian democratic culture as a way to think about issues of politics and education, both ancient and modern. The book moves skillfully between antiquity and the present, from ancient to contemporary political theory, and from Athenian to American democracy. It draws together important recent work by political theorists with the views of classical scholars …
On The Uses and Disadvantages of Hellenic Studies for Political and Social Life
Corrupting Youth: Political Education, Democratic Culture and Political Theory
PrefaceCh. 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 th…
Reading Democracy: "Socratic" Dialogues and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens
Oedipean Complexities and Political Science: Tragedy and the Search for Knowledge
Remembering Paige Baty, I
Theory & Event - Volume 1, Issue 4, 1997
When There Are Gray Skies: Aristophanes' Clouds and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens
Research Article| October 01 1996 When There Are Gray Skies: Aristophanes’ Clouds and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens J. Peter Euben J. Peter Euben Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (4): 881–918. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-4-881 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation J. Peter Euben; When There Are Gray Ski…
Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstitution of American Democracy
What does it mean to be a citizen in a democracy? This question is addressed here by thirteen historians, classicists, and political theorists, who examine ancient Greek institutions, texts, and ideas in light of today's political values
Democracy Ancient and Modern
With the collapse of communism and consequent disrepute of Marxism, there is a danger that liberalism will overwhelm democracy and that liberal political theory will become hegemonic despite the efforts of “communitarians” and postmodernists. I want to suggest that, given these developments, Athenian democracy and classical political theory read in its terms is a worthy political and theoretical interlocutor for both. (For a more detailed argumen…
Books in Review
Politics and the Polis: How to Study Greek Moral and Political Philosophy
The Tragedy of Political Theory: The Road Not Taken
The Tragedy of Political Theory: The Road Not Taken
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The Ambition to Rule: Alcibiades and the Politics of Imperialism in Thucydides. Steven Forde
The tragedy of political theory: The Road Not Taken
In this book J. Peter Euben argues that Greek tragedy was the context for classical political theory and that such theory read in terms of tragedy provides a ground for contemporary theorizing alert to the concerns of post-modernism, such as normalization, the dominance of humanism, and the status of theory. Euben shows how ancient Greek theater offered a place and occasion for reflection on the democratic culture it helped constitute, in part by…
Books in Review
The Battle of Salamis and the Origins of Political Theory
HIS IS AN ESSAY about the origins of politics and political theory in classical Athens. My aim is not to provide a comprehensive survey of those origins but to emphasize a single source that is fundamental in itself and illuminates the others.' That source is the interpretation the Athenians made of their victory over greatly superior Persian forces in the 480 B.C. Battle of Salamis.2 Given the disparity of power and the enormity of the risk, the…
The Battle of Salamis and the Origins of Political Theory
HIS IS AN ESSAY about the origins of politics and political theory in classical Athens. My aim is not to provide a comprehensive survey of those origins but to emphasize a single source that is fundamental in itself and illuminates the others.' That source is the interpretation the Athenians made of their victory over greatly superior Persian forces in the 480 B.C. Battle of Salamis.2 Given the disparity of power and the enormity of the risk, the…
Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstitution of American Democracy
What does it mean to be a citizen in a democracy? This question is addressed here by thirteen historians, classicists, and political theorists, who examine ancient Greek institutions, texts, and ideas in light of today's political values
Justice and the Oresteia
The essay is concerned with justice in the Oresteia and the way the Oresteia contributes to the justice it celebrates. It begins by examining the place of tragedy in Athenian politics as a preface to an analysis of the trilogy's understanding of justice. That understanding is explored using two examples of fundamentally conflicting forces which are reconciled in the play to create a whole larger and more just than either force alone. The essay go…
Class Ideology and Ancient Political Theory: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in Social Context
I. Philosophy and Politics in Plato's Crito
The Tragedy of Tragedy
There are good reasons to consider tragedy, especially Greek tragedy, a resource for current debates in international relations. This is not only because of the ethical and political dilemmas tragedy explores with such dramatic force, but because tragedy is a significant context for reading Thucydides with the political and literary acumen he demands. To ignore this context is to domesticate the ways tragedy challenges both our conventional readi…
Platonic Noise
Final Lecture: Political Freedom
So here we are; you at the end of the course, me at the end of 34 years of teaching at UCSC and 20 years of teaching Political Freedom. This seems an appropriate enough occasion for us to reflect together on teaching and being taught
On Political Corruption
I. Philosophy and Politics in Plato's Crito
Class Ideology and Ancient Political Theory: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in Social Context
Justice and the Oresteia
The essay is concerned with justice in the Oresteia and the way the Oresteia contributes to the justice it celebrates. It begins by examining the place of tragedy in Athenian politics as a preface to an analysis of the trilogy's understanding of justice. That understanding is explored using two examples of fundamentally conflicting forces which are reconciled in the play to create a whole larger and more just than either force alone. The essay go…
Books in Review
The Battle of Salamis and the Origins of Political Theory
HIS IS AN ESSAY about the origins of politics and political theory in classical Athens. My aim is not to provide a comprehensive survey of those origins but to emphasize a single source that is fundamental in itself and illuminates the others.' That source is the interpretation the Athenians made of their victory over greatly superior Persian forces in the 480 B.C. Battle of Salamis.2 Given the disparity of power and the enormity of the risk, the…
The Tragedy of Political Theory: The Road Not Taken
https://works.swarthmore.edu/alum-books/2366/thumbnail.jpg
The Ambition to Rule: Alcibiades and the Politics of Imperialism in Thucydides. Steven Forde
The tragedy of political theory: The Road Not Taken
In this book J. Peter Euben argues that Greek tragedy was the context for classical political theory and that such theory read in terms of tragedy provides a ground for contemporary theorizing alert to the concerns of post-modernism, such as normalization, the dominance of humanism, and the status of theory. Euben shows how ancient Greek theater offered a place and occasion for reflection on the democratic culture it helped constitute, in part by…
The Tragedy of Political Theory: The Road Not Taken
Books in Review
Politics and the Polis: How to Study Greek Moral and Political Philosophy
Democracy Ancient and Modern
With the collapse of communism and consequent disrepute of Marxism, there is a danger that liberalism will overwhelm democracy and that liberal political theory will become hegemonic despite the efforts of “communitarians” and postmodernists. I want to suggest that, given these developments, Athenian democracy and classical political theory read in its terms is a worthy political and theoretical interlocutor for both. (For a more detailed argumen…
Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstitution of American Democracy
What does it mean to be a citizen in a democracy? This question is addressed here by thirteen historians, classicists, and political theorists, who examine ancient Greek institutions, texts, and ideas in light of today's political values
When There Are Gray Skies: Aristophanes' Clouds and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens
Research Article| October 01 1996 When There Are Gray Skies: Aristophanes’ Clouds and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens J. Peter Euben J. Peter Euben Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (4): 881–918. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-4-881 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation J. Peter Euben; When There Are Gray Ski…
Reading Democracy: "Socratic" Dialogues and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens
Oedipean Complexities and Political Science: Tragedy and the Search for Knowledge
Remembering Paige Baty, I
Theory & Event - Volume 1, Issue 4, 1997
Corrupting Youth: Political Education, Democratic Culture, and Political Theory
In Corrupting Youth , Peter Euben explores the affinities between Socratic philosophy and Athenian democratic culture as a way to think about issues of politics and education, both ancient and modern. The book moves skillfully between antiquity and the present, from ancient to contemporary political theory, and from Athenian to American democracy. It draws together important recent work by political theorists with the views of classical scholars …
On The Uses and Disadvantages of Hellenic Studies for Political and Social Life
Corrupting Youth: Political Education, Democratic Culture and Political Theory
PrefaceCh. 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 th…
The Polis, Globalization, and the Politics of Place
Final Lecture: Political Freedom
So here we are; you at the end of the course, me at the end of 34 years of teaching at UCSC and 20 years of teaching Political Freedom. This seems an appropriate enough occasion for us to reflect together on teaching and being taught
Platonic Noise
Fugitive Theory
Fugitive Theory J. Peter Euben (bio) The new edition of Politics and Vision is, as holding it in one hand makes clear, a greatly expanded one. But is it also a revised edition, one that offers or outlines a revisioning of politics, of political theory, and of the polymorphous relations between them? If vision is, as the book’s opening chapter argues, the imagined anticipation of what is not yet present, an excess unintimidated by the supposedly s…
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