Ch. I. Imploding the Canon: The Reform of Education and the War over Culture -- Ch. II. Corrupting Socrates -- Ch. III. The Battle of Salamis and the Origins of Political Theory -- Ch. IV. Democratic Accountability and Socratic Dialectic -- Ch. V. When There Are Gray Skies: Aristophanes' Clouds and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens -- Ch. VI. Antigone and the Languages of Politics -- Ch. VII. Oedipean Complexities and Political Science: Tragedy and the Search for Knowledge -- Ch. VIII. The Gorgias, Socratic Dialectic, and the Education of Democratic Citizens -- Ch. IX. The Protagoras and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens
Summary
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 in ways that shine new light on significant theoretical debates such as those over discourse ethics, rational choice, and political realism,
