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Explores the affinities between Socratic philosophy and Athenian democratic culture as a way to think about issues of politics and education, both ancient and modern. Drawing on Aristophanes' "Clouds", Sophocles' "Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannos", and Plato's "Apology of Socrates", this work develops a view of democratic political education.

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Drawing on writers as diverse as Plato, Homer, Nietzsche, Borges, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth, this work shows us the relevance of both popular literature and ancient Greek thought. It discusses Stoic cosmopolitanism and globalization, compares the role of comedy in ancient Athens and contemporary America, and analyzes political theory.

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Puts forward an argument that Greek tragedy was the context for classical political theory and that such theory read in terms of tragedy provides a ground for contemporary theorizing alert to the concerns of post-modernism, such as normalization, the dominance of humanism, and the status of theory.