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Enter Plato : classical Greece and the origins of social theory

Title
Enter Plato : classical Greece and the origins of social theory / [by] Alvin W. Gouldner.
Author
Gouldner, Alvin Ward, 1920-1980.
Publication
New York : Basic Books, [1965]

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Description
ix, 407 pages; 24 cm
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Civil war in the Polis -- The Greek contest system: patterns of culture -- Self and society in Greece -- The war between the cities -- An alternative to politics -- Social diagnosis: Plato's Analysis of social disunity -- Social diagnosis: Lacunae and assumptions in Plato's diagnosis -- Therapeutics: planned social change in Plato's theory -- Therapeutics: law and universalism -- The fatigue of reason and the metaphysics of authoritarianism -- Death and the tragic outlook.
LCCN
65021192
OCLC
  • ocm00759951
  • 759951
  • SCSB-2345572
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries