A History of Trust in Ancient Greece. - JOHNSTONE, St.,
KORTE INHOUD
Steven Johnstone has written a stimulating, if curious, book on trust in classical Greece. Across seven substantive chapters the author covers a series of seemingly disparate topics - all without so much as mentioning the word pistis. The result is a historical lipogram: an anthropological archaeology of the practices, but not the discourse, of trust. This is also a timely book; current events (cf., e.g., Losing Faith in American Institutions) and the recent interest in ancient institutional analysis makes trust, and in particular 'impersonal trust', or 'the ways that abstract systems allow people to routinely interact, even with strangers, as if they trusted one another', (2) a subject of prime importance to anyone interested in the development, successes, and failures of political, economic, and legal institutions, ancient or modern. (...) In sum, this is an important and thought-provoking book, but more of a prolegomenon to the history of trust in classical Greece than that history itself. But all historie...
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2011Uitgever: University of Chicago Press242 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0226405095ISBN-13: 9780226405094Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Chicago / London, 2011. XII,242p. Original amber cloth with dust wrps. [New] [Auteur: JOHNSTONE, St.,] [Uitgever: University of Chicago Press] [Jaar: 2011] [Titel: A History of Trust in Ancient Greece.]
