TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harris,William V.
TI  - Moses Finley and politics
T2  - Columbia studies in the classical tradition
SN  - 9789004261693
AV  - PA85.F48 M67 2013
U1  - 938.007202B 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Finley, M. I.
KW  - Classicists
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Economic history
KW  - To 500
KW  - Anti-communist movements
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material --; A Brief Introduction; W. V. Harris --; Moses Finkelstein and the American Scene: The Political Formation of Moses Finley, 1932–1955; Daniel P. Tompkins --; Finkelstein the Orientalist; Seth R. Schwartz --; The Young Moses Finley and the Discipline of Economics; Richard P. Saller --; Moses Finley and the Academic Red Scare; Ellen Schrecker --; Dilemmas of Resistance; Αlice Kessler-Harris --; Finley’s Democracy/Democracy’s Finley; Paul Cartledge --; Politics in the Ancient World and Politics; W. V. Harris --; Un-Athenian Affairs: I. F. Stone, M. I. Finley, and the Trial of Socrates; Τhai Jones --; Bibliography --; Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - Moses Finley (1912-1986) was one of the most widely read scholarly historians and journalists of his age, having grown famous with The World of Odysseus ; and he exercised a transformative influence on the study of the history of Greek and Roman antiquity. In this centenary volume distinguished ancient historians and Americanists analyse Finley’s political and intellectual evolution, and attempt to understand the paradoxes of the young leftist and victim of McCarthyism whose work owes more to Weber than to Marx and of the young Jewish scholar (Moses Finkelstein) who distanced himself from Jewishness
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004261693
ER  -