Bøger af Ann Ward

When I grow up, I want to be a stepmom! You said that, right? What You didn't? When you were little, you didn't dream of being a stepmom? Guess what, me neither. But, here we are. Let's talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly...

This book explores the recovery of Socratic philosophy in 19th century political thought of G.W.F. Hegel, Soren Kierkegaard, John Stuart Mill, and Friedrich Nietzsche. For Kierkegaard the Socratic indivdual in modern times is the person of faith, for Mill the idiosyncratic public intellectual, and for Nietzsche the Dionysian artist.

Treats the classical writer not as a historian but as a political philosopher. Ann Ward uses close textual analysis to demonstrate that Herodotus investigates recurring themes in the most important forms of government in the ancient world.