Athenian political thought and the reconstruction of American democracy / edited by J. Peter Euben, John Wallach, and Josiah Ober.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-346) and index.

Norm and form: the constitutionalizing of democracy / Sheldon S. Wolin -- Democracy: an idea of amibiguous ancestry / Ellen Meiksins Wood -- The creation of a legacy: a manufactured crisis in eighteenth-century thought / Jennifer Roberts -- Democracy, power, and imperialism in fifth-century Athens / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- How to criticize democracy in late fifth- and fourth-century Athens / Josiah Ober -- Frank speech, democracy, and philosophy: Plato's debt to a democratic strategy of civic discourse / S. Sara Monoson -- Democracy and political theory: a reading of Plato's Gorgias / J. Peter Euben -- The tragedy of critical theory / Christopher Rocco -- The melting pot, the mosaic, and the Agora / Barry S. Strauss -- Athenian political thought and the feminist politics of poiesis and praxis / Warren J. Lane and Ann M. Lane -- The zero degree of society: Aritstotle and the Athenian citizen / Charles W. Hedrick, Jr. -- Two democracies and virtue / John R. Wallach.