Aristotle's Politics

Critical Essays

Contributions by Jonathan Barnes, John M. Cooper, Dorothea Frede, Stephen Taylor Holmes, David Keyt, Fred D. Miller, Josiah Ober, Stephen G. Salkever, Malcolm Schofield, Jeremy Waldron Edited by Richard Kraut, Steven Skultety

Publication date:

28 September 2005

Length of book:

256 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780742534247

Aristotle's Politics is widely recognized as one of the classics of the history of political philosophy, and like every other such masterpiece, it is a work about which there is deep division. Many readers of Aristotle are uncertain whether his Politics has any contribution to make to contemporary debates about political life and political theory. The essays in this volume aim to address, implicitly or explicitly, this very question about the relevance of Arisotle's thinking in contemporary political philosophy. Written by leading scholars in lucid and accessible style, the nine essays in this volume will be a critical resource for newcomers to Aristotle.

Chapter 1 Aristippus in and out of Athens
Chapter 2 Aristotle's Social Science
Chapter 3 Political Animals and Civic Friendship
Chapter 4 Ideology and Philosophy in Aristotle's Theory of Slavery
Chapter 5 Property Rights in Aristotle
Chapter 6 The Wisdom of the Multitude: Some Reflections on Book 3 of Aristotle's Politics, Chapter 11
Chapter 7 Citizenship in Aristotle's Politics
Chapter 8 Aristotle and Political Liberty
Chapter 9 Aristotle and Anarchism
Chapter 10 Aristotle's Natural Democracy

This fine collection of provocative essays by distinguished and theoretically diverse authors explores the contributions Aristotle's Politics makes to contemporary debates about political life and political theory. Keenly philosophical, historically nuanced, and often helpfully at odds with one another, these essays will be illuminating for all students of politics, ancient and modern.