Corrupting Youth: Political Education, Democratic Culture, and Political Theory

by J.PeterEuben (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $49.06

  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. Drawing on Aristophanes' Clouds , Sophocles' Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannos , and Plato's Apology of Socrates , this work develops a view of democratic political education.