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The Humanity of Thucydides
"Orwin has given us an important, provocative, and ultimately unsettling new book on Thucydides. . . . [A] valuable piece of scholarship. It asks important questions, marshaling an impressive breadth and depth of learning."—Geoff Bakewell, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"[Orwin] allows us to see Thucydides' entire work in a fresh light. No one who reads this carefully crafted, wittily written study will emerge with his or her vision unchanged. . . . Orwin is in full control of the secondary literature on Thucydides, his handling of the philological questions is magisterial, and if the passages that he discusses are familiar, his treatment of them is not. This may be the best book to appear on the subject thus far, and given the quality of the secondary literature produced in the last half-century, that is saying a lot."—Paul A. Rahe, American Historical Review
"One of the most instructive and persuasive studies of Thucydides I know. It ought to be of great interest to classicists, historians, philosophers, and anyone who seeks wisdom about politics."—Donald Kagan, Yale University
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Clifford Orwin
Canadian academic (born 1947)
Clifford Orwin is a Canadian-American professor of ancient, modern, contemporary and Jewish political thought. He is also a prominent writer on contemporary politics and culture.
Life career
[edit]Orwin was born in 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, United States to a Jewish family. He earned B.A. in Modern History from Cornell University, where he studied political philosophy with Allan Bloom, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Philosophy from Harvard University under Harvey Mansfield.
Orwin moved to Canada to take up a teaching position at the University of Toronto, and later became a Canadian citizen. He is currently a Professor of Political Philosophy, Classical Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto, where he has taught for many decades and where he currently serves as Chair of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy's program in Political Philosophy and International Affairs.
He is often identified as a Straussian[1][2][3] and is critical of theories that identify Leo Strauss with neoconservatism and the War in Iraq.[4] He supports the Democratic Party, but is critical of its left wing.[5]
He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEH Fel