Empire and Politics in the Eastern and Western Civilizations: Searching for a 'Respublica Romanosinica' - Hardcover

by Andrea Balbo (Editor), Jaewon Ahn (Editor), Kihoon Kim (Editor)

The volume includes the proceedings of the 2nd Roma Sinica project conference held in Seoul in September 2019 and aims to compare some features of the ancient political thought in the Western classical tradition and in the Eastern ancient thought. The contributors, coming from Korea, Europe, USA, China, Japan, propose new patterns of interpretation of the mutual interactions and proximities between these two cultural worlds and offer also a perspective of continuity between contemporary and ancient political thought.

Therefore, this book is a reference place in the context of the comparative research between Roman (and early Greek thought) and Eastern thought. Researchers interested in Cicero, Seneca, Plato, post-Platonic and post Aristotelic philosophical schools, history, ancient Roman and Chinese languages could find interesting materials in this work.

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The volume includes the proceedings of the 2nd Roma Sinica conference held in 2019 and aims to compare some features of the ancient thought in the Western classical tradition and in the Eastern ancient thought, with a focus on politics. The contributors propose new patterns of interpretation of the mutual interactions and proximities between these two cultural worlds and offer also some perspectives of continuity between contemporary and ancient political thought.

Author Biography

Jaewon Ahn and Kihoon Kim, Seoul National University, South Korea; Andrea Balbo, University of Turin, Italy.