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

by J. Peter Euben

Book Overview

In 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691048282
• ISBN13: 9780691048284
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"