Professor Ryan Balot interviewed by GEO magazine on the topic of Courage

November 22, 2013

Front Cover_smallCarsten Jasner recently interviewed Ryan Balot for GEO magazine, a well known journal of ideas and culture in Europe.

The topic of the article is courage, on which Balot has just written a major book entitled Courage in the Democratic Polis: Ideology and Critique in Classical Athens.

The book will appear in February with Oxford University Press. Alongside academic colleagues and political activists, Balot discusses the relationship between ancient Greek and contemporary conceptions of courage, as well as the diverse types of courage found in liberal democracies, including military, civil, and intellectual courage.

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Professor Ryan Balot