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"[An introduction] to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democrary, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire...[Lane] focuses on eight political ideas from the Greco-Roman world that are especially influential today...and describes how the ancient formulations of these ideas often challenge widely held modern assumptions"--From publisher description on book jacket

An ecologically sustainable society cannot be achieved without citizens who possess the virtues and values that will foster it, and who believe that individual actions can indeed make a difference. Eco-Republic draws on ancient Greek thought--and Plato's Republic in particular--to put forward a new vision of citizenship that can make such a society a reality. Melissa Lane develops a model of a society whose health and sustainability depend on all its citizens recognizing a shared standard of value and shaping their personal goals and habits accordingly. Bringing together the moral and political ideas of the ancients with the latest social and psychological theory, Lane illuminates the individual's vital role in social change, and articulates new ways of understanding what is harmful and what is valuable, what is a benefit and what is a cost, and what the relationship between public and private well-being ought to be. Eco-Republic reveals why we must rethink our political imagination if we are to meet the challenges of climate change and other urgent environmental concerns. Offering a unique reflection on the ethics and politics of sustainability, the book goes beyond standard approaches to virtue ethics in philosophy and current debates about happiness in economics and psychology. Eco-Republic explains why health is a better standard than happiness for capturing the important links between individual action and social good, and diagnoses the reasons why the ancient concept of virtue has been sorely neglected yet is more relevant today than ever

Among Plato's works, the Statesman is usually seen as transitional between the Republic and the Laws. This book argues that the dialogue deserves a special place of its own. Whereas Plato is usually thought of as defending unchanging knowledge, Dr Lane demonstrates how, by placing change at the heart of political affairs, Plato reconceives the link between knowledge and authority. The statesman is shown to master the timing of affairs of state, and to use this expertise in managing the conflict of opposed civic factions. To this political argument corresponds a methodological approach which is seen to rely not only on the familiar method of 'division', but equally on the unfamiliar centrality of the use of 'example'. The demonstration that method and politics are interrelated transforms our understanding of the Statesman and its fellow dialogues

The George circle : from Künstlergesellschaft to Lebensgemeinschaft / Ute Oelmann -- Stefan George's homoerotic Erlösungsreligion, 1891-1907 / Adam Bisno -- The secret Germany of Gertrud Kantorowicz / Robert E. Lerner -- The poet as idol : Friedrich Gundolf on Rilke and poetic leadership / Rüdiger Görner -- Kingdom of the spirit : the secret Germany in Stefan George's later poems / Ray Ockenden -- The absentee prophet : public perceptions of George's poetry in the Weimar period / David Midgley -- The platonic politics of the George circle : a reconsideration / Melissa S. Lane -- Political economy as Geisteswissenschaft : Edgar Salin and other economists around George / Bertram Schefold -- "Imperium transcendat hominem" : Reich and rulership in Ernst Kantorowicz's Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite / Martin A. Ruehl -- Third Reich and third Europe : Stefan George's imperial mythologies in context / Richard Faber -- From secret Germany to Nazi Germany : the politics of art before and after 1933 / Robert E. Norton -- The George circle and national socialism / Peter Hoffmann -- Stauffenberg : the search for a motive / Thomas Karlauf