An original work of political theory, The Iroquois and the Athenians relocates the problem of political foundations and origins, removing it from the dead logic of the social contract and grafting it onto a juxtaposed representation of the historical practices of the pre-contact Iroquois and the pre-classical Greeks.

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Prior Principles: The History of a Necessary Error
Chapter 2: Going on the Road: Visiting the Iroquois Longhouse
Chapter 3: Disinterring Democracy: The Constitution of the Constitution
Chapter 4: Therapeutic Reveries: The Withdrawal of the Origin
Notes
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Brian Seitz is professor of philosophy at Babson College. He is author of The Trace of Political Representation, and coeditor (with Ron Scapp) of Living with Class: Philosophy Reflections on Identity and Material Culture; Fashion Statements: On Style, Appearance, and Reality; Etiquette: Reflections on Contemporary Comportment; and Eating Culture.
Thomas Thorp is professor of philosophy at Saint Xavier University in Chicago. He is founding director of Greater Yellowstone College.