The Tradition of Greek Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4480828 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Pierre Vidal‐naquet (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-86 |
| Publication date | 2000-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513600060000006 |
| OpenAlex | W2110588414 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
Moses Finley's reflections on ancient and modern democracy, explicitly directed against the liberal mainstream of political science, but also - avant la lettre - against the belittling of Greek democracy that has become fashionable among post-Marxist radicals, can be taken as a starting point for further discussion of historical as well as theoretical questions. The points at issue have to do with the belated recognition of democracy as a part of the Greek tradition, but also with the divided and contested modern tradition that grew out of this new perspective on the past. The French Revolution is crucial to both aspects of the problem. Although it can be shown that the well-known attempts of the revolutionaries to appropriate classical models did not - in the short run - radically alter the image of ancient Greece, the very experience of the revolution - both as an exceptionally dramatic historical event and as a key episode in a more long-term process - was bound to change modern perceptions of the classical world. The new understanding of Greek democracy, made possible by the revolution but not inspired by it, was first articulated by the radical wing of 19th-century liberalism; but it could, in due course, serve to develop a critique of liberalism
Aesthetics · Art · Democracy · Epistemology · Liberal democracy · Liberalism · Literature · Mainstream · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political Theory and Influence
The Collected Dialogues of Plato including the letters
The invention of Athens
Origines de la France contemporaine.
The Spartan Tradition in European Thought
The Cult of Antiquity and the French Revolutionaries
The Order of Things
Democracy Ancient and Modern
The Imaginary Institution of Society
Un mandarin prend la parole »
The Classical Republicans
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2002 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |