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Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2026
The Shape of Democracy
Professor Jill Frank (President White Professor of History & Political Science, Cornell University)
Analyzing uses of order, agreement, power, equality, beauty, and form in the dialogs of Plato, these lectures seek to alter prevailing understandings of these keywords in Plato and to offer resources for contemporary democratic theory and practice.
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