Chronology1The Great Paradoxical Society: Ancient Athens12Democracy and the Paranoid Position133The Founding Miracle: Crisis and Possibility374The Founding Miracle: Compromise, Reconciliation, and Continuing Strife575The Spirit of Society: Citizenship, Freedom, and Responsibility756The Health of the Democratic Polis957Moderate Antidemocratic Movements and Oligarchic Death Squads: The Coups of 411 and 4041178Antidemocratic Thought, the Beginnings of Totalitarian Theory, and the Origins of Political Terror1359Clubs, Factions, Political Parties, and Mass Action15910The Eating of the Gods16811The Demos as Tyrant18612Narcissus-Dionysus20413Warfare and Genocide22814Political Action with a Class Basis - Sometimes Violent, Sometimes Not24815The People Reign but Elites Rule27316The Boundaries of Justice and the Tribal Bond29017Gain, Honor, Wisdom30818Education for the Political Life: Small-Town Democracy32019The Instability of the Republican City-State33620Democracy and the "Paranoidia" of Greed and Domination362Notes377Bibliography407Index415
