Title Ancient and modern democracy : two concepts of liberty? / Wilfried Nippel ; translated by Keith Tribe

Published New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015 ©2015

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The History and Structure of Athenian Democracy -- Athens -- A Special Case in the Greek World -- Solon, the Legislator -- The Tyranny of the Peisistratids -- The Reforms of Cleisthenes -- Ostracism -- The Road to Complete Democracy -- Citizens, Metics and Slaves -- The New Approach to Allies and the Leading Role of Pericles -- The Popular Assembly and the Council of 500 -- The Magistracies -- The Process of Political Decision Making The Financing of Public Tasks -- Jury Courts -- The Crises during the Later Phases of the Peloponnesian War -- Legislation and the 'Judicial Review' -- Developments in the Later Fourth Century -- Democracy without Theory or Mission -- 2 The Reception of Ancient Constitutional Theory -- Ancient Constitutional Categories -- The Reception of Aristotle and Civic Humanism -- Mixed Constitution, Ephors, Tribunes and New Republicanism -- Alternatives to Aristotelianism -- Variants of the Social Contract -- 3 Ancient Democracy and Social Backwardness -- Republic and Territorial State A Military or a Commercial State -- Further Distancing from Antiquity -- 4 The American Founding Fathers and Their Emancipation from the Ancient Model -- Sources of Constitutional Discussion -- Lessons from Antiquity -- A World-Historical Founding Constellation -- Constitution, Basic Rights, Human Rights -- Republic and Democracy -- 5 The French Revolution and Antiquity -- Constitution Building and Human Rights -- Topics from Antiquity -- State of Emergency, Dictatorship and Tyranny -- Building a Constitution and Freedom of Opinion -- A National Programme of Education Emancipation: Slaves, Women, Foreigners -- Citizens, Voters and Democracy -- Gracchus Babeuf -- References to Antiquity in Post-revolutionary Constitutions -- 6 Terror and the 'Cult of Antiquity' in Post-Revolutionary Discourse -- The Legend of Jacobin Enthusiasm for Antiquity -- The Course of Discussion in Germany -- 7 'Ancient and Modern Liberty' -- From Benjamin Constant to Max Weber -- Constant on Liberty/Liberties -- Fustel de Coulanges and the All-Powerful Ancient State -- Burckhardt and the Subordination of the Individual to the State -- Acton on the History of the Freedom of Conscience Max Weber and the homo politicus -- 8 German Nineteenth-Century Ambivalence Regarding Athenian Democracy -- Topical Criticism of Athens -- Discussion of Major Athenian Iniquities -- Positive Images of Athens -- 9 The 'Rehabilitation' of Athenian Democracy -- The Tory View of Athens -- Grote's Liberal Athens -- Antiquity and the Present in the Writing of John Stuart Mill -- German Reactions to Grote -- Discussion in the Theory of the State -- 10 Models of Democracy and Constitutional Policy in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Competing Democratic and Constitutional Models Caesarism -- Autocracy and Democracy Summary "Ancient and Modern Democracy is a comprehensive account of Athenian democracy as a subject of criticism, admiration and scholarly debate for 2,500 years, covering the features of Athenian democracy, its importance for the English, American and French revolutions and for the debates on democracy and political liberty from the nineteenth century to the present. Discussions were always in the context of contemporary constitutional problems. Time and again they made a connection with a long-established tradition, involving both dialogue with ancient sources and with earlier phases of the reception of Antiquity. They refer either to a common cultural legacy or to specific national traditions; they often involve a mixture of political and scholarly arguments. This book elucidates the complexity of considering and constructing systems of popular self-rule"-- Provided by publisher Notes Includes index Print version record Subject Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- History Democracy -- History Liberty -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General. Democracy Liberty Demokratie Greece -- Athens Athen Europa Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781316568514 1316568512

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