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Paul Rahe

Disciplines:
history
ancient history/classics
skepticism/republicanism
hillsdale

Summary

American historian — Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in Western Heritage at Hillsdale College — author of Republics Ancient and Modern — who traces the intellectual history of republican government from Athens through the American Founding.

Core Contribution

Creates the most comprehensive intellectual history of republicanism from antiquity to modernity — Republics Ancient and Modern is the most ambitious comparative analysis of ancient and modern republican thought in American scholarship.

Notable Works & Achievements

Republics Ancient and Modern

Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift

Sparta's Second Attic War

Historical Influences

Alexis de Tocqueville Aristotle Montesquieu

Intellectual Lineage

Yale Oxford Tulane Hillsdale College

Contemporaries & Peers

Harvey Mansfield Larry Arnn

Minds Influenced

Classical republican theory

Intellectual Posterity

Republics Ancient and Modern Soft Despotism

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