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The Spartan Tradition in European Thought

Author : Elizabeth Rawson
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon P.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Spartan Tradition in European Thought written by Elizabeth Rawson and published by Oxford : Clarendon P.. This book was released on 1969 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient polemics on Sparta (by Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, and others) have had a remarkable afterlife in the political and educational thought of Renaissance Italy, the France of the Philosophes, Whig England, and Nazi Germany. This book outlines the little we know of ancient Sparta, describes Greek reaction to the ambiguous institutions of the great rival to democratic Athens, makes a first attempt to follow the subsequent fortunes of the debate, and indicates Sparta's role--over twenty-five centuries--in the intellectual history of Europe.

Republics Ancient and Modern

Author : Paul Anthony Rahe
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807844731
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Republics Ancient and Modern written by Paul Anthony Rahe and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Republics Ancient and Modern, Volume I: The Ancien Regime in Classical Greece"

Sparta in Modern Thought

Author : Stephen Hodkinson
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589187
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Sparta in Modern Thought written by Stephen Hodkinson and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of ancient Sparta have had a major impact on Western thought. From the Renaissance to the French Revolution she was invoked by radical thinkers as a model for the creation of a republican political and social order. Since the 19th century she has typically been viewed as the opposite of advanced liberal and industrial democracies: a forerunner of 20th-century totalitarian and militaristic regimes such as the Third Reich and the Soviet Union. Yet positive images of Sparta remain embedded in contemporary popular media and culture. This is the first book in over 40 years to examine this important subject. Eleven ancient historians and experts in the history of ideas discuss Sparta's changing role in Western thought from medieval Europe to the 21st century, with a special focus on Enlightenment France, Nazi Germany and the USA. Images of ancient Sparta have had a major impact on Western thought. From the Renaissance to the French Revolution she was invoked by radical thinkers as a model for the creation of a republican political and social order. Since the 19th century she has typically been viewed as the opposite of advanced liberal and industrial democracies: a forerunner of 20th-century totalitarian and militaristic regimes such as the Third Reich and the Soviet Union. Yet positive images of Sparta remain embedded in contemporary popular media and culture. This is the first book in over 40 years to examine this important subject. Eleven ancient historians and experts in the history of ideas discuss Sparta's changing role in Western thought from medieval Europe to the 21st century, with a special focus on Enlightenment France, Nazi Germany and the USA.

National Thought in Europe

Author : Joseph Theodoor Leerssen
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9053569561
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book National Thought in Europe written by Joseph Theodoor Leerssen and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging widely across countries and centuries, National Thought in Europe critically analyzes the growth of nationalism from its beginnings in medieval ethnic prejudice to the romantic era’s belief in a national soul. A fertile pan-European exchange of ideas, often rooted in literature, led to a notion of a nation’s cultural individuality that transformed the map of Europe. By looking deeply at the cultural contexts of nationalism, Joep Leerssen not only helps readers understand the continent’s past, but he also provides a surprising perspective on contemporary European identity politics.

The Spartan Regime

Author : Paul Anthony Rahe
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300219016
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Spartan Regime written by Paul Anthony Rahe and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative and refreshingly original consideration of the government and culture of ancient Sparta and her place in Greek history For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civilization described as a combination of democracy and oligarchy by Aristotle, considered an ideal of liberty in the ages of Machiavelli and Rousseau, and viewed as a forerunner of the modern totalitarian state by many twentieth-century scholars has long remained a mystery. In a bold new approach to historical study, noted historian Paul Rahe attempts to unravel the Spartan riddle by deploying the regime-oriented political science of the ancient Greeks, pioneered by Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Xenophon, and Polybius, in order to provide a more coherent picture of government, art, culture, and daily life in Lacedaemon than has previously appeared in print, and to explore the grand strategy the Spartans devised before the arrival of the Persians in the Aegean.

Republics Ancient and Modern, Volume I

Author : Paul A. Rahe
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469621517
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Republics Ancient and Modern, Volume I written by Paul A. Rahe and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment of the ancient Greek city and its subsequent influence. A masterwork of political theory and comparative politics for the classroom. "In a series of sketches touching on everything from the lust for honor to the suspicion of commerce and philosophy, from the role of homoerotic bonds in maintaining military formations to the distrust of technological innovation, Rahe brilliantly reminds us how utterly committed the Greeks were to a politics in which the distribution of honors, education and culture in all their forms, and economic activity were all designed to preserve civic solidarity.--Jack N. Rakove, American Historical Review "[An] extraordinary book. . . . It is a great achievement and will stay as a landmark.--Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Spectator (London) "A work of magisterial erudition.--Journal of American History

Renaissance? Perceptions of Continuity and Discontinuity in Europe, c.1300- c.1550

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900418841X
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance? Perceptions of Continuity and Discontinuity in Europe, c.1300- c.1550 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on recent revisionist trends, this book offers a refreshing new perspective on the Renaissance and presents an invaluable examination of continuities and discontinuities from Petrarch to Machiavelli, from Giotto to Dürer, and from Italy to Burgundy, Bohemia and beyond.

The Idea of Historical Recurrence in Western Thought

Author : G. W. Trompf
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520312406
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Historical Recurrence in Western Thought written by G. W. Trompf and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that history repeats itself has a long and intriguing history. This volume is concerned with the period of time in the Western tradition when its expressions were most numerous and fervent. The author shows that this idea should not be confined to its cyclical version, for such notions as reenactment, retribution, and renaissance also belong under the wide umbrella of "recurrence." He argues, moreover, that not only the Greco-Roman but also the biblical tradition contributed to the history of this idea. The old contrast between Judeo-Christian linear views of history and Greco-Roman cyclical views is brought into question. Beginning with Polybius, Trompf examines the manifold forms of recurrence thinking in Greek and Roman historiography, then turns his attention to biblical views of historical change, arguing that in Luke-Acts and in earlier Jewish writings an interest in the idea of history repeating itself was clearly demonstrated. Jewish and early Christian writers initiated and foreshadowed an extensive synthesizing of recurrence notions and models from both traditions, although the syntheses could vary with the context and dogmatic considerations. The Renaissance and Reformation intertwine classical and biblical notions of recurrence most closely, yet even in the sixteenth century some ideas distinct to each tradition, such as the Polybian conception of a "cycle of governments" and hte biblical notion of the "reenactment of significant events," were revived in stark separation from each other. The Idea of Historical Recurrence in Western Thought deals with a continuing but not always fruitful "dialogue" between the two great traditions of Western thought, a dialogue that did not stop short in the days of Machiavelli, but has been carried on to the present day. This study is the first half of a long story to be continued in a second volume on the idea of historical recurrence from Giambattista Vico to Arnold Toynbee. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

The Discovery of the Mind

Author : Bruno Snell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discovery of the Mind written by Bruno Snell and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

German Literature, History and the Nation

Author : Christian Emden
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039101696
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book German Literature, History and the Nation written by Christian Emden and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of three volumes based on papers given at the 'Fragile Tradition' conference in Cambridge, 2002. Together they provide a conspectus of current research on the cultural, historical and literary imagination of the German-speaking world across the whole of the modern period. This volume highlights the connections between cultural identity and the sense of nationhood which are to be found in literary writing, the history of ideas, and the interaction between European cultures from the late Middle Ages to the present day. It focuses particularly on the way myths of cultural identity are passed on and transformed historically; on the fashioning of various models of modern German identity with reference to the cultures of Greece, France, England and Renaissance Italy; on the reflection of 19th-century nationalism in literary writing and ideas about language; and on the ways in which cultural values have asserted themselves in relation to moments of catastrophe and abrupt political change in the 1920s, the 1940s, and the 1990s.

Critics of State Education

Author : George H. Smith
Publisher : Cato Institute
ISBN 13 : 1944424431
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book Critics of State Education written by George H. Smith and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since at least the days of ancient Sparta, governments have sought to control the educational process. By influencing the education of their citizens, governments hope to produce loyal subjects. Yet everywhere, at all times, men and women of independent mind and will have resisted and opposed state education. Critics of State Education: A Reader surveys this important movement, bringing together influential historical texts of thinkers great and small. In readings from Plato’s Athens to Priestley’s Britain, George H. Smith and Marilyn Moore explore the value of liberating education from the influence and control of government.

Modes of Thought in Western and Non-Western Societies

Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532617615
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Modes of Thought in Western and Non-Western Societies written by Ruth Finnegan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a basic difference in thinking between Western and non-Western societies? This long-debated yet highly topical problem forms the central question to which distinguished contributors in the fields of psychology, linguistics, history, and sociology and, more particularly, of social anthropology and philosophy, address themselves in this interdisciplinary collection. They are: Barry Barnes, Benjamin N. Colby and Michael Cole, Ruth Finnegan, Ernest Gellner, Robin Horton, J. M. Ita, Hilary Jenkins, Steven Lukes, Nobuhiro Nagashima, S. J. Tambiah, W. H. Whiteley, and Sybil Wolfram. The central ideas of this classic work are reformulated and refined in the various contributions with different possible dichotomies discussed such as: 'traditional/modern', 'industrial/non industrial', or 'scientific/non-scientific', and 'thinking,' analyzed in terms of its thought processes, content, logic or social background. The material in the book, which is dedicated to Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard, falls within the general area of the comparative sociology of knowledge, and will thus particularly interest philosophers, social anthropologists, and sociologists. The volume is however conceived in an interdisciplinary spirit and will be of interest to anyone seriously concerned to examine the nature of thinking in our own and other societies.

Republicanism: Volume 2, The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe

Author : Martin van Gelderen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139439817
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Republicanism: Volume 2, The Values of Republicanism in Early Modern Europe written by Martin van Gelderen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-21 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes are the fruits of a major European Science Foundation project and offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Whilst previous research has mainly focused on Atlantic traditions of republicanism, Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally distinguished set of contributors whose studies highlight the richness and diversity of European traditions. Volume I focuses on the importance of anti-monarchism in Europe and analyses the relationship between citizenship and civic humanism, concluding with studies of the relationship between constitutionalism and republicanism in the period between 1500 and 1800. Volume II is devoted to the study of key republican values such as liberty, virtue, politeness and toleration. This 2002 volume also addresses the role of women in European republican traditions, and contains a number of in-depth studies of the relationship between republicanism and the rise of a commercial society in early modern Europe.

Imperial Republics

Author : Edward Andrew
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442695870
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Republics written by Edward Andrew and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-08-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Republicanism and imperialism are typically understood to be located at opposite ends of the political spectrum. In Imperial Republics, Edward G. Andrew challenges the supposed incompatibility of these theories with regard to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century revolutions in England, the United States, and France. Many scholars have noted the influence of the Roman state on the ideology of republican revolutionaries, especially in the model it provided for transforming subordinate subjects into autonomous citizens. Andrew finds an equally important parallel between Rome's expansionary dynamic — in contrast to that of Athens, Sparta, or Carthage — and the imperial rivalries that emerged between the United States, France, and England in the age of revolutions. Imperial Republics is a sophisticated, wide-ranging examination of the intellectual origins of republican movements, and explains why revolutionaries felt the need to 'don the toga' in laying the foundation for their own uprisings.

A Companion to Sparta

Author : Anton Powell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119072387
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Sparta written by Anton Powell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume A Companion to Sparta presents the first comprehensive, multi-authored series of essays to address all aspects of Spartan history and society from its origins in the Greek Dark Ages to the late Roman Empire. Offers a lucid, comprehensive introduction to all aspects of Sparta, a community recognised by contemporary cities as the greatest power in classical Greece Features in-depth coverage of Sparta history and culture contributed by an international cast including almost every noted specialist and scholar in the field Provides over a dozen images of Spartan art that reveal the evolution of everyday life in Sparta Sheds new light on a modern controversy relating to changes in Spartan society from the Archaic to Classical periods

Ideology and Foreign Policy in Early Modern Europe (1650–1750)

Author : Gijs Rommelse
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409482472
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Ideology and Foreign Policy in Early Modern Europe (1650–1750) written by Gijs Rommelse and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years 1650 to 1750 – sandwiched between an age of 'wars of religion' and an age of 'revolutionary wars' – have often been characterized as a 'de-ideologized' period. However, the essays in this collection contend that this is a mistaken assumption. For whilst international relations during this time may lack the obvious polarization between Catholic and Protestant visible in the proceeding hundred years, or the highly charged contest between monarchies and republics of the late eighteenth century, it is forcibly argued that ideology had a fundamental part to play in this crucial transformative stage of European history. Many early modernists have paid little attention to international relations theory, often taking a 'Realist' approach that emphasizes the anarchism, materialism and power-political nature of international relations. In contrast, this volume provides alternative perspectives, viewing international relations as socially constructed and influenced by ideas, ideology and identities. Building on such theoretical developments, allows international relations after 1648 to be fundamentally reconsidered, by putting political and economic ideology firmly back into the picture. By engaging with, and building upon, recent theoretical developments, this collection treads new terrain. Not only does it integrate cultural history with high politics and foreign policy, it also engages directly with themes discussed by political scientists and international relations theorists. As such it offers a fresh, and genuinely interdisciplinary approach to this complex and fundamental period in Europe's development.

Ideology and Foreign Policy in Early Modern Europe (1650-1750)

Author : David Onnekink
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781409419136
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Ideology and Foreign Policy in Early Modern Europe (1650-1750) written by David Onnekink and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By engaging with, and building upon recent theoretical developments, this collection sheds new light on international relations in the century between 1650 and 1750. Integrating cultural history with high politics and foreign policy, it also engages directly with themes discussed by political scientists and international relations theorists to argue that, this was far from being a 'de-ideologized' period. Instead it offers a fresh and genuinely interdisciplinary perspective to this complex and fundamental period in Europe's development, and one which puts ideology at its core.