Confronting Tyranny Ancient Lessons for Global Politics

by Koivukoski, Toivo; Tabachnick, David; Beiner, Ronald; Blitz, Mark; Boesche, Roger; Bradshaw, Leah; Chirot, Daniel; Lilla, Mark; Moggach, Douglas; Newell, Waller R.; Smith, Thomas W.; Strauss, Barry; Strong, Tracy B.; Tabachnick, David Edward; Tarcov, Nath

• ISBN13: 9780742544017
• ISBN10: 074254401X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-22
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Motivated by the reentry of tyranny into political discourse and political action, this new work compares ancient and contemporary accounts of tyranny in an effort to find responses to current political dilemmas and enduring truths. In our globally interconnected world, tyrants are no longer dangerous solely to their subjects and neighbors, but to all. This is where the debate begins as the lessons of classical political philosophy are thrown into the present political crisis of understanding and action.

Table of Contents

1 Why Talk about Tyranny Today?	1	(8)
Catherine Zuckert
2 Tyranny, Ancient and Modern	9	(16)
Mark Blitz
3 Tyranny Bound	25	(8)
David Edward Tabachnick
4 An Omission from Ancient and Early Modern Theories of Tyranny: Genocidal Tyrannies	33	(20)
Roger Boesche
5 Failures of Autonomy: A Hegelian Diagnosis of Modern Tyranny	53	(14)
Douglas Moggach
6 What Is "Tyranny"? Considering the Contested Discourse of Domination in the Twenty-first Century	67	(14)
Simon Tormey
7 Postcolonial African and Middle Eastern Tyrannies: Combining the Worst of the Classical and Modern Traditions	81	(22)
Daniel Chirot
8 Tyranny and Tragedy in Nietzsche: From the Ancient to the Modern	103	(20)
Tracy B. Strong
9 Tyranny from Plato to Locke	123	(18)
Nathan Tarcov
10 Is There an Ontology of Tyranny?	141	(20)
Waller R. Newell
11 Tyranny and the Womanish Soul	161	(20)
Leah Bradshaw
12 The Soul of the Tyrant, and the Souls of You and Me: Plato's Understanding of Tyranny	181	(16)
Ronald Beiner
13 The Education of a Tyrant	197	(16)
Toivo Koivukoski
14 The Folly of the Wise?	213	(20)
Thomas Smith
15 In the Shadow of the Fortress	233	(10)
Barry Strauss
16 The New Age of Tyranny	243	(8)
Mark Lilla
Index	251	(6)
About the Contributors	257