CHAPTER 6. Political Animals, Actual Citizens, and the Best Possible Polis: Aristotle Politics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xiii
4. Abbreviations xv
5. Introduction. Why Dissent? Why Athens? 1
6. CHAPTER 1. The Problem of Dissent: Criticism as Contest 14
7. CHAPTER 2. Public Speech and Brute Fact: Thucydides 52
8. CHAPTER 3. Essence and Enactment: Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 122
9. CHAPTER 4. Justice, Knowledge, Power: Plato Apology, Crito, Gorgias, Republic 156
10. CHAPTER 5. Eloquence, Leadership, Memory: Isocrates Antidosis and Areopagiticus 248
11. CHAPTER 6. Political Animals, Actual Citizens, and the Best Possible Polis: Aristotle Politics 290
12. CHAPTER 7. The Dialectics of Dissent: Criticism as Dialogue 352
13. Bibliography 375
14. Index Locorum 403
15. General Index 408