Table of Contents
Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION: CRITIQUE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND RETURN TO CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
1. KARL MARX: ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY AND THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
Science and Nature in Democritus and Epicurus Nature, Praxis, and Social Objectivity Classical Needs and Neoclassical Aesthetics Ancient and Modern Democracy Greek Social Justice and Political Economy in Capital Rationalization of Production and the Logic of Capital Greek Physics and Marx's Dialectical Science Classical Antiquity and the Ancient Mode of Production
2. MAX WEBER: GREEK TRAGEDY AND THE RATIONALIZATION OF SOCIETY
Classical Antiquity and Ancient Capitalism Capitalism and Democracy in the Greek Polis Decline of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Modern Capitalism Nietzsche and the Origins of Greek Tragedy Existential Nihilism and the Perspectivism of Science History of Western Science from Plato to the Present Prophets of Positivism and the Politics of Science Rationalization and the Eclipse of Reason Classical Humanism and Historical Economics
3. EMILE DURKHEIM: GREEK POLIS AND THE SOLIDARITY OF THE CONSCIENCE COLLECTIVE
Aristotle,Montesquieu, and the Foundations of Sociology Origins of Society in Rousseau and Aristotle Epistemology and Existentialism in Kant and Schopenhauer Platonic Rationalism and the Sophistry of Pragmatism Collective Representations as Social Epistemology Hellenic Solidarity and Modern Anomie Classical Pedagogy and Modern Politics Classical Justice Informing Social Democracy
4. AWAKENING CLASSICAL DREAMS: SYNTHESIS OF ANCIENT JUSTICE AND MODERN SOCIAL SCIENCE
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