This volume presents the history of republican ideas from ancient Greece to the present. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the political community as a common good and a public affair. Readers of this volume will learn about the origin and development of republicanism across different social and political contexts and historical eras, including ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, the Medieval era, Renaissance thought, and Modern philosophy. They will come to understand the concepts and criticisms of the republic in the 20th century, and current debates on neo-republicanism, and contemporary republican political theory. Interdisciplinary in scope, this book is of interest to students and scholars in political philosophy and political theory, as well as the general reader interested in tracing the history of the modern republic.

LAZAR ATANASKOVIĆ (1988) is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, where he teaches courses in the philosophy of history and the history of modern philosophy, particularly critical theory. He earned his PhD from the same university in 2021 with a dissertation titled Hegel and the Problem of Historical Writing. He conducted part of his doctoral research at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, during the 2014–2015 academic year. He is the author of Between Kafka and Benjamin: Modernity as Experience (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, 2026) and numerous articles on the history of philosophy, particularly the thought of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Benjamin. He has also participated in numerous conferences and roundtables. He is a founding member and the current coordinator of the Center for the Studies of Idealism at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, as well as a member of the editorial board of the journal Arhe. His principal research interests include the philosophy of history, classical German philosophy, twentieth-century critical theory—particularly the Frankfurt School—and the thought of Walter Benjamin.

GEORGE HRISTOV (1985) is a research fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory in Belgrade. He earned his PhD from the Department of Political Theory and the History of Ideas at the University of Regensburg in 2017 with a dissertation titled Politics and Immanence: State and History in Hegel and Deleuze. His principal research interests include ancient political thought, modern social contract theory, German idealism, twentieth-century political theory, twentieth-century French political thought, political violence and war, archaism in modernity, fascism and totalitarianism, and the phenomena of mutual recognition and imitation in the context of the politicization of human relations. He is currently editor-in-chief of the journal Philosophy and Society, published by the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory.

NEVENA JEVTIĆ (1982) is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, where she teaches courses in transcendental and speculative philosophy and political philosophy. She earned her PhD from the same university in 2016 with a dissertation titled The Problem of Critique in Hegel. Her principal research interests are classical German philosophy and political philosophy. She has published numerous scholarly articles, particularly on the philosophies of Immanuel Kant and G. W. F. Hegel. She currently serves as deputy head of the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, and is a member of the editorial board of the journal Arhe.

STANKO VLAŠKI (1987) is an associate professor of classical German idealism and the philosophy of religion at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad. He earned his PhD from the same university in 2018 with a dissertation titled Hegel’s Critique of the Romantic Concept of Religion. His principal research interests include the philosophies of Kant and Hegel and the philosophy of early German Romanticism. He is the author of Horizon of Praxis: Essays on Kant’s Philosophy (2023) and numerous scholarly articles. He is currently editor-in-chief of the journal Arhe.