The Life of Roman Republicanism / Joy Connolly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Connolly, Joy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Rome--History.

Republicanism--Rome--History.

Rome--Politics and government--265-30 B.C.

Rome--History--Republic, 510-30 B.C.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years, Roman political thought has attracted increased attention as intellectual historians and political theorists have explored the influence of the Roman republic on major thinkers from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Held up as a "third way" between liberalism and communitarianism, neo-Roman republicanism promises useful, persuasive accounts of civic virtue, justice, civility, and the ties that bind citizens. But republican revivalists, embedded in modern liberal, democratic, and constitutional concerns, almost never engage closely with Roman texts. The Life of Roman Republicanism takes up that challenge.With an original combination of close reading and political theory, Joy Connolly argues that Cicero, Sallust, and Horace inspire fresh thinking about central concerns of contemporary political thought and action. These include the role of conflict in the political community, especially as it emerges from class differences; the necessity of recognition for an equal and just society; the corporeal and passionate aspects of civic experience; citizens' interdependence on one another for senses of selfhood; and the uses and dangers of self-sovereignty and fantasy. Putting classicists and political theorists in dialogue, the book also addresses a range of modern thinkers, including Kant, Hannah Arendt, Stanley Cavell, and Philip Pettit. Together, Connolly's readings construct a new civic ethos of advocacy, self-criticism, embodied awareness, imagination, and irony.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. Where Politics Begins: Cicero's Republic

2. Justice in the World: The Execution of Jugurtha

3. Non-Sovereign Freedom in Horace's Satires 1

4. DIVIDUAL ADVOCACY

5. Imagination, Finitude, Responsibility, Irony: Cicero's pro Marcello

CONCLUSION. THE REPUBLIC REMASTERED

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691176376

069117637X

9781400852475

1400852471

OCLC:

891445816