"A fresh look at Aristotle's political theory with attention to the resonance of his thought for contemporary concerns"--.

• Contents
• Translator’s Note
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: “Our Ancestors the Greeks”
  • The Greeks, That Is to Say, Aristotle
• Chapter 1 The Philosopher in Politics
  • The Missed Birth of Ethics
  • The Politics, a Split and Twilight Work
  • Appendix to the First Chapter
• Chapter 2 A Biological Politics?
  • Aristotle’s Social Naturalism
  • The Origin of the Family and of the City
  • “Man as a Political Animal in Aristotle”
• Chapter 3 The Endangered Happiness of the City
  • The City Is Autonomous
  • Man Is Not Only a Citizen
  • “Aristotle Discovers the Economy”
  • Familial Counterfeits of Political Power
  • Aristotle Is Proslavery
  • “Friendship is the greatest of goods for cities.”
  • Political Friendship and Ideology
  • A Few Words about Women and, Again, about Slaves
• Chapter 4 Citizen, City, Constitution
  • The Citizen and Power
  • Excellence Is Plural
  • Ethical Virtue and Political Virtue
  • A New Shape for Constitutional Excellence: Mixture
  • Class Struggle: Danger and Safety for Cities
  • The Laws and Justice
• Chapter 5 On the Positive Use of Deviance
  • Not All Wolves Are Gray
  • What, After All, Is a Polity?
• Chapter 6 The Legislator
  • The Legislator and the Magistrate
  • What Are the Means That the Legislator Must Put into Operation?
  • The Laws
  • The Situations in Which the Legislator Intervenes
  • Functional Excellence
• Chapter 7 The Theoretical Tools of the Legislator
  • The Diversity of Constitutions
  • To Save the Constitutions
  • Aristotle’s Stasis
  • Aristotle versus Plato, Again.
• Chapter 8 Political Matter
  • The Order of the Books of the Politics Is Anti-Platonic
  • The Prologue to Book 7
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index