LEADER 04676nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910449793403321 005 20210612001738.0 010 $a1-4008-1151-1 010 $a1-282-75328-2 010 $a9786612753282 010 $a1-4008-2233-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400822331 035 $a(CKB)1000000000001777 035 $a(EBL)581586 035 $a(OCoLC)700688539 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000131057 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11937047 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000131057 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10007798 035 $a(PQKB)10878593 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581586 035 $a(OCoLC)741691432 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36016 035 $a(DE-B1597)446129 035 $a(OCoLC)979685238 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400822331 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581586 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035772 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275328 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000001777 100 $a19961231d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCorrupting youth$b[electronic resource] $epolitical education, democratic culture, and political theory /$fJ. Peter Euben 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1997 215 $a1 online resource (287 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-01202-4 311 0 $a0-691-04828-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tChapter I. Imploding the Canon: The Reform of Education and the War over Culture --$tChapter II. Corrupting Socrates --$tChapter III. The Battle of Salamis and the Origins of Political Theory --$tChapter IV. Democratic Accountability and Socratic Dialectic --$tChapter V. When There Are Gray Skies: Aristophanes' Clouds and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens --$tChapter VI. Antigone and the Languages of Politics --$tChapter VII. Oedipean Complexities and Political Science: Tragedy and the Search for Knowledge --$tChapter VIII. The Gorgias, Socratic Dialectic, and the Education of Democratic Citizens --$tChapter IX. The Protagoras and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens --$tIndex 330 $aIn Corrupting Youth, 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. The book moves skillfully between antiquity and the present, from ancient to contemporary political theory, and from Athenian to American democracy. It draws together important recent work by political theorists with the views of classical scholars in ways that shine new light on significant theoretical debates such as those over discourse ethics, rational choice, and political realism, and on political issues such as school vouchers and education reform. Euben not only argues for the generative capacity of classical texts and Athenian political thought, he demonstrates it by thinking with them to provide a framework for reflecting more deeply about socially divisive issues such as the war over the canon and the "politicization" of the university. Drawing on Aristophanes' Clouds, Sophocles' Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannos, and Plato's Apology of Socrates, Gorgias, and Protagoras, Euben develops a view of democratic political education. Arguing that Athenian democratic practices constituted a tradition of accountability and self-critique that Socrates expanded into a way of doing philosophy, Euben suggests a necessary reciprocity between political philosophy and radical democracy. By asking whether we can or should take "Socrates" out of the academy and put him back in front of a wider audience, Euben argues for anchoring contemporary higher education in appreciative yet skeptical encounter with the dramatic figure in Plato's dialogues. 606 $aPolitical science$zGreece 606 $aPolitical plays, Greek$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature$zGreece 606 $aPolitical socialization 606 $aDemocracy$zGreece 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPolitical science 615 0$aPolitical plays, Greek$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature 615 0$aPolitical socialization. 615 0$aDemocracy 676 $a321.8/01 700 $aEuben$b J. Peter$0779758 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910449793403321 996 $aCorrupting youth$92471311 997 $aUNINA