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9780300088175

The Ship of State; Statecraft and Politics from Ancient Greece to Democratic America

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300088175

  • ISBN10:

    0300088175

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2001-07-11
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $69.33

Author Biography

Norma Thompson is associate professor of political science at Yale University.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(10)
PART 1. The Polis
Stories at the Limits
11(41)
Homer and the Origins of the Polis
13(9)
Thucydides' Athens
22(14)
Aristotle's New Founding
36(16)
Plato's Socrates
52(21)
PART 2. The State
The Rhetoric of the State
73(39)
Machiavelli's Lucrezia
79(12)
Burke's Queen of France
91(14)
Shelley's Monster
105(7)
Rousseau/Tutor
112(11)
PART 3. Democratic America
Surveying Tocqueville
123(14)
Gertrude Stein's Socrates
137(21)
Conclusion: Redressing the Balance 158(9)
Afterword-The Ship of State: The Political Metaphor and Its Fate 167(8)
Notes 175(34)
Bibliography 209(28)
Index 237

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