Corrupting Youth by J Peter Euben
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.
"In this wide-ranging study of political thought in classical Athens, Peter Euben locates Greek explorations of the civic community, and how one educates people for it, in the context of contemporary debates over higher education in the United States.. [This] work, probing and reflective, with many surprising twists and turns, will spark quite enough (democratic) discussion and debate as it is."--American Journal of Philology
J. Peter Euben is Professor of Politics at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the author of The Tragedy of Political Theory: The Road Not Taken (Princeton), the editor of Greek Tragedy and Political Theory, and coeditor of Athenian Political Thought and Reconstitution of American Democracy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691048284 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691048282 |
| Title | Corrupting Youth |
| Author | J Peter Euben |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 1997-09-07 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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