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TY  - BOOK
ID  - 8525511
TI  - The Athenian revolution : essays on ancient Greek democracy and political theory
PY  - 1999
SN  - 9780691010953 0691001901 0691010951 9780691001906 0691217971
PB  - Princeton (N.J.) : Princeton university press,
DB  - UniCat
KW  - Idées politiques
KW  - Démocratie
KW  - Athènes (Grèce)
KW  - Grèce
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - Democracy
KW  - History.
KW  - Grèce ancienne
KW  - Politique
KW  - Democracy - Greece - Athens - History
KW  - Self-government
KW  - Political science
KW  - Equality
KW  - Representative government and representation
KW  - Republics
KW  - History
KW  - Democracy.
KW  - Greece
KW  - al-Yūnān
KW  - Ancient Greece
KW  - Ellada
KW  - Ellas
KW  - Ellēnikē Dēmokratia
KW  - Elliniki Dimokratia
KW  - Grčija
KW  - Grèce
KW  - Grecia
KW  - Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡
KW  - Griechenland
KW  - Hellada
KW  - Hellas
KW  - Hellenic Republic
KW  - Hellēnikē Dēmokratia
KW  - Kingdom of Greece
KW  - République hellénique
KW  - Royaume de Grèce
KW  - Vasileion tēs Hellados
KW  - Xila
KW  - Yaṿan
KW  - Yūnān
KW  - Ελληνική Δημοκρατία
KW  - Ελλάς
KW  - Ελλάδα
KW  - Греция
KW  - اليونان
KW  - يونان
KW  - 希腊
KW  - Aeschines.
KW  - Bowles, S.
KW  - Bugh, G.
KW  - Cohen, D.
KW  - Connor, W. R.
KW  - Council, role of.
KW  - Dover, K. J.
KW  - Finley, M. I.
KW  - Golden Age myths.
KW  - Gomme, A. W.
KW  - Hansen, M. H.
KW  - Hanson, V. D.
KW  - Iron Law of Oligarchy.
KW  - Isagoras.
KW  - Jones, A.H.M.
KW  - Kagan, D.
KW  - Knight, D. W.
KW  - Loraux, N.
KW  - MacDowell, D. M.
KW  - Meier, C.
KW  - Ostwald, M.
KW  - Petrey, S.
KW  - Rawls, J.
KW  - Sinclair, R. K.
KW  - atimia.
KW  - decision-making.
KW  - democratic ideology.
KW  - evidence, problems of.
KW  - exclusion, and citizenship.
KW  - foundationalism.
KW  - justice.
KW  - koinōnia.
KW  - liberalism.
KW  - noncitizens: and the polis.
KW  - objectivity.
KW  - politeia.
KW  - positivism.
KW  - pragmatism.
KW  - regime of truth, democratic.
KW  - social contract theory.
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AB  - Where did "democracy" come from, and what was its original form and meaning? Here Josiah Ober shows that this "power of the people" crystallized in a revolutionary uprising by the ordinary citizens of Athens in 508-507 B.C. He then examines the consequences of the development of direct democracy for upper-and lower-class citizens, for dissident Athenian intellectuals, and for those who were denied citizenship under the new regime (women, slaves, resident foreigners), as well as for the general development of Greek history.When the citizens suddenly took power into their own hands, they changed the cultural and social landscape of Greece, thereby helping to inaugurate the Classical Era. Democracy led to fundamental adjustments in the basic structures of Athenian society, altered the forms and direction of political thinking, and sparked a series of dramatic reorientations in international relations. It quickly made Athens into the most powerful Greek city-state, but it also fatally undermined the traditional Greek rules of warfare. It stimulated the development of the Western tradition of political theorizing and encouraged a new conception of justice that has striking parallels to contemporary theories of rights. But Athenians never embraced the notions of inherency and inalienability that have placed the concept of rights at the center of modern political thought. Thus the play of power that constituted life in democratic Athens is revealed as at once strangely familiar and desperately foreign, and the values sustaining the Athenian political community as simultaneously admirable and terrifying.
ER  -