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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816809003321

Titolo

Moses Finley and politics / / edited by W. V. Harris ; Paul Cartledge [and seven others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

90-04-26169-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (165 p.)

Collana

Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, , 0166-1302 ; ; Volume 40

Altri autori (Persone)

HarrisWilliam V (William Vernon)

CartledgePaul

Disciplina

938.007202

Soggetti

Classicists - United States

Classicists - Great Britain

Economic history - To 500

Anti-communist movements - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- A Brief Introduction / W. V. Harris -- Moses Finkelstein and the American Scene: The Political Formation of Moses Finley, 1932–1955 / Daniel P. Tompkins -- Finkelstein the Orientalist / Seth R. Schwartz -- The Young Moses Finley and the Discipline of Economics / Richard P. Saller -- Moses Finley and the Academic Red Scare / Ellen Schrecker -- Dilemmas of Resistance / Αlice Kessler-Harris -- Finley’s Democracy/Democracy’s Finley / Paul Cartledge -- Politics in the Ancient World and Politics / W. V. Harris -- Un-Athenian Affairs: I. F. Stone, M. I. Finley, and the Trial of Socrates / Τhai Jones -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Moses Finley (1912-1986) was one of the most widely read scholarly historians and journalists of his age, having grown famous with The World of Odysseus ; and he exercised a transformative influence on the study of the history of Greek and Roman antiquity. In this centenary volume distinguished ancient historians and Americanists analyse Finley’s political and intellectual evolution, and attempt to understand the paradoxes of the young leftist and victim of McCarthyism whose work owes more to Weber than to Marx and of the young Jewish scholar



(Moses Finkelstein) who distanced himself from Jewishness.