Polis, Nation, Global Community

Ann Ward is Professor of Political Science at Baylor University, USA. Her research interests are ancient political philosophy, especially Herodotus, Plato and Aristotle, and nineteenth century political thought. Ward’s most recent book is The Socratic Individual: Philosophy, Faith and Freedom in a Democratic Age (2020). She is also the author of Contemplating Friendship in Aristotle’s Ethics (2016), and Herodotus and the Philosophy of Empire (2008). She has edited Classical Rationalism and the Politics of Europe (2017), Socrates and Dionysus: Philosophy and Art in Dialogue (2013), Matter and Form: From Natural Science to Political Philosophy (2009), and Socrates: Reason or Unreason as the Foundation of European Identity (2007). She has co-edited with Lee Ward Natural Right and Political Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Catherine Zuckert and Michael Zuckert (2013), and The Ashgate Research Companion to Federalism (2009). She has published widely in scholarly journals, including POLIS: The Journal of the Society for Greek Political Thought, Perspectives on Political Science, European Journal of Political Theory, and The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms.

Introduction Part I: Ancient Conceptions of Polis and Empire 1.Citizenship and the Polis in Aristotle’s Politics 2. Cicero’s Empire of Wisdom Part II: Modern Birth and Life of the Nation-State 3. Defining the Law of Nations: Revisions of Cicero’s ius gentium in Suárez, Grotius, and Burke 4. The Creation of Man: Linguistic Reformation and the Necessity of the State in the Work of Thomas Hobbes 5. Nation against Empire: J.G. Fichte on Economics and Cultural Nationalism 6. Religious Authority, the Social Contract and the Need for Political Friendship Part II: The Postmodern Challenge to Nationalism and State Sovereignty 7. Nietzsche Against the Sovereign Individual in the Second Essay of the Genealogy 8. What is a People? Part IV: Contemporary Challenges to the Global Citizenship 9. Ro otedness and National Identity in the 21st Century 10. Honor, Cynicism, and Liberal Education 11. Loving One’s Own: Pathway to Justice or Retrograde Tribalism? 12. Pierre Manent on the Nation, Humanity, and Politics as the Great Mediation