The Public and the Private in Aristotle's Political Philosophy. (book reviews)

These two studies--both eminently worth reading--have several points in common. Both Mary Nichols and Judith Swanson are sympathetic readers of Aristotle who seek to make sense of his texts without denying their difficulty and ambiguity. Both acknowledge the strangeness of those texts as seen from any modern point of view, but both presuppose--and then go on to show--that these texts are nevertheless pertinent for our own thinking about politics.

Both avoid the sort of anachronistic, simplifying, and inevitably condescending reconstruction of Aristotle as a systematic philosopher that ...

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