Vast Personal Forces
Thucydides, Populism, and the Liberty of the Ancients
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6403670 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Jaffe, S N Jaffe (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 152-169 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034670522001231 |
| OpenAlex | W4320881292 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
Modern discussions of freedom focus on negative liberty or nondomination. In his portrait of the Athenian democracy, Thucydides thematizes the psychology of ancient freedom. By focusing on the psychology of the demos, Thucydides shows how democratic imperialism unfolds from the experience of freedom as a kind of felt power. His analysis offers us a way to think about contemporary populism. In representative democracy, the connection between power and freedom has been severed by representation and the modern state, but an experience of power nonetheless remains part of what we mean by freedom today. Modern citizens frequently feel powerless and so unfree, ensnared by impersonal forces. One lure of populism is that it satisfies the longing for freedom as a form of felt power, for a measure of control over one's life
Aesthetics · Art history · Democracy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Portrait · Power (physics · Representation (politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
The invention of Athens
Thucydides and Athenian imperialism.
The Periclean Model
Liberty before Liberalism
Taming Democracy
Two Concepts of Liberty
CHAPTER 1 Prologue
Thucydides, Pericles, and Periclean Imperialism
The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks
What Has Athens to Do with Rome? Tocqueville and the New Republicanism
Power and Preparedness in Thucydides
Thucydides Between History and Literature
Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom
Thucydides and the Tradition of Funeral Speeches at Athens
Money, Expense, and Naval Power in Thucydides' History 1-5.24
The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides
Democracy Beyond Athens
Citizen as Erastes
Trust the People! Populism and the Two Faces of Democracy
The Original Meaning of “Democracy
Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides
Thucydides on the Causes of Athenian Imperialism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |