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Ancient Greece and American Conservatism - John Bloxham

Ancient Greece and American Conservatism

Classical Influence on the Modern Right

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Buch | Hardcover
296 Seiten
2018
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78831-154-0 (ISBN)
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US conservatives have repeatedly turned to classical Greece for inspiration and rhetorical power. In the 1950s they used Plato to defend moral absolutism; in the 1960s it was Aristotle as a means to develop a uniquely conservative social science; and then Thucydides helped to justify a more assertive foreign policy in the 1990s.
By tracing this phenomenon and analysing these, and various other, examples of selectivity, subversion and adaptation within their broader social and political contexts, John Bloxham here employs classical thought as a prism through which to explore competing strands in American conservatism. From the early years of the Cold War to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Bloxham illuminates the depth of conservatives' engagement with Greece, the singular flexibility of Greek ideas and the varied and diverse ways that Greek thought has reinforced and invigorated conservatism. This innovative work of reception studies offers a richer understanding of the American Right and is important reading for classicists, modern US historians and political scientists alike.

John Bloxham teaches at the University of Nottingham, where he leads courses on classical history and ancient Greek. He is also an associate tutor at the University of Leicester and associate lecturer at the Open University. He received his PhD from the University of Nottingham.

Introduction
Chapter One – Plato’s Ideas had Consequences: Greek Thought and the ‘New Conservatives’
Chapter Two – Leo Strauss and the Ancients against the Moderns
Chapter Three – Greek Thought and a Neoconservative Social Science
Chapter Four – Educational Culture Wars and the Classicizing of the American Mind
Chapter Five – Greek Thought and Iraq War II
Conclusion
References

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 496 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 1-78831-154-X / 178831154X
ISBN-13 978-1-78831-154-0 / 9781788311540
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