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Rahe, Paul Anthony was born on December 18, 1948 in Tulsa. Son of Paul Anthony and Helen Marie Linehan Rahe.
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First published in 1992 and now available in paperback in three volumes, Paul Rahe's ambitious and provocative book bridges the gap between political theory, comparative history and government, and constitutional prudence. Rahe challenges prevailing interpretations of ancient Greek republicanism, early modern political thought, and the founding of the American republic. 'An extraordinary book. . . . It is a great achievement and will stay as a landmark.'--The Spectator (London) 'This is the first, comprehensive study of republicanism, ancient and modern, written for our time.'--Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University 'A stunning feat of scholarship, presented with uncommon grace and ease--the sort of big, important book that comes along a few times in a generation. In an age of narrow specialists, it ranges through the centuries from classical Greece to the new American Republic, unfolding a coherent new interpretation of the rise of modern republicanism. . . . World-class, and sure to have a quite extraordinary impact.'--Lance Banning, University of Kentucky Volume I: The Ancien Regime in Classical Greece Where social scientists and many ancient historians tend to follow Max Weber or Karl Marx in asserting the centrality of status or class, Rahe's depiction of the illiberal, martial republics of classical Hellas vindicates Aristotle's insistence on the determinative influence of the political regime and brings back to life a world in which virtue is pursued as an end, politics is given primacy, and socioeconomic concerns are subordinated to grand political ambition. Volume II: New Modes and Orders in Early Modern Political Thought Where many intellectual historians discern a revival of the classical spirit in the political speculation of the age stretching from Machiavelli to Adam Smith, Rahe brings to light a self-conscious repudiation of the theory and practice of ancient self-government and an inclination to restrict the scope of politics, to place greater reliance on institutions than on virtuous restraint, and to give free rein to the human's capacities as a tool-making animal. Volume III: Inventions of Prudence: Constituting the American Regime Where students of the American founding are inclined to dispute whether the Revolution was liberal, republican, or merely confused, Rahe demonstrates that the American regime embodies an uneasy, fragile, and carefully worked-out compromise between the enlightened despotism espoused by Thomas Hobbes and the classical republicanism defended by Pericles and Demosthenes.
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(An assessment of the ancient Greek city and its subsequen...)
An assessment of the ancient Greek city and its subsequent influence. A masterwork of political theory and comparative politics for the classroom. "In a series of sketches touching on everything from the lust for honor to the suspicion of commerce and philosophy, from the role of homoerotic bonds in maintaining military formations to the distrust of technological innovation, Rahe brilliantly reminds us how utterly committed the Greeks were to a politics in which the distribution of honors, education and culture in all their forms, and economic activity were all designed to preserve civic solidarity.--Jack N. Rakove, American Historical Review "An extraordinary book. . . . It is a great achievement and will stay as a landmark.--Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Spectator (London) "A work of magisterial erudition.--Journal of American History
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This is a work vast in scale, soaring in its scholarly ambition, and magnificent . . . in its achievement. The author's command of the primary sources is staggering in breadth and depth, deftly orchestrated and rich with insight. . . . Deploying an avalanche of evidence. . . Rahe shows how alien the modern project, in all its diverse versions, was to the classics as well as the Bible.--Thomas L. Pangle, Political Theory
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Rahe, Paul Anthony was born on December 18, 1948 in Tulsa. Son of Paul Anthony and Helen Marie Linehan Rahe.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1971. Master of Arts, University Oxford, England, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1977.
Acting instructor history Yale University, New Haven, 1976-1977. Assistant professor history Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1977-1980. Steinman assistant professor classics and history Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1981-1983.
From assistant professor to associate professor history University Tulsa, 1983-1994, Jay P. Walker professor history, 1994, director 1st seminar program, 1990-1992. Junior fellow Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, 1980-1981. Fellow National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1984, Eastern Mediterranean Institute Current World Affairs, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1984-1986.
John M. Olin faculty fellow John M. Olin Foundation, New York City, 1988-1989. Fellow Center for History of Freedom, St. Louis, 1990, National Endowment of the Humanities, Washington, 1993-1994, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, 1993-1994. Visiting fellow Clare Hall, Cambridge, England, 1999.
Visiting fellow All Souls College, Oxford, since 2005. Visiting professor history Yale University, New Haven, 1996-1997. E.L. Weigand visiting lecturer Thomas Aquinas College, 2000.
(First published in 1992 and now available in paperback in...)
(This is a work vast in scale, soaring in its scholarly am...)
(An assessment of the ancient Greek city and its subsequen...)
(4 essays derived from Oct. 1998 Conference titled "Civita...)
Board directors Institute Current Affairs, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1987-1994, chairman board directors 1998-2003. Academy advisory committee Churchill Center, Washington, since 1997. Member Oklahoma committee selection Rhodes Scholarship Trust, 1986-1987, secretary, 1989-1995.
Member American Philological Association (committee on classical tradition 1993-1996), American Political Science Association, Conference for Study of Political Thought, Association Ancient Historians, Society for Historians of Early American Republic, St. George Tucker Society, History Society (board governors since 1998, national conference program organizer 1999-2000), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Laura Frances Torbert, January 4, 2000. Children: Antonia Marie, Francesca Pia.