UID:
edoccha_9959165689402883
Format:
1 online resource (217 pages).
ISBN:
1-350-00619-X
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1-350-00615-7
Series Statement:
Textual moments in the history of political thought
Content:
" This collection of short essays on texts in the history of democracy shows the diversity of ideas that contributed to the making of our present democratic moment. The selection of texts goes beyond the standard, Western-centric canonical history of democracy, with its beginnings in Ancient Athens and its climax in the French and American revolutions, recovering some of the significant body of democratic and anti-democratic thought in Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere. It includes discussions of well-known philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, but also of a variety of thinkers much less well known in English as writers on democracy: Al Farabi, Bolívar, Gandhi, Radishchev, Lenin, Sun Yat-sen, and many others. The essays thus de-center our understanding of the moments where the idea of democracy was articulated, rejected, and appropriated. Spanning antiquity to the present and global in scope, with contributions by key scholars of democracy from around the world, Democratic Moments is the ideal text for all students wishing to expand their understanding of the ways in which this contested concept has been understood. "--
Note:
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction (Xavier Marquez) -- Part I: The Greek Moment and its Aftermath -- 1. Herodotus' Ecologies of Freedom (Joel Shlosser) -- 2. Aristotle on the Virtues and Vices of Democracy, Politics (Kevin Cherry) -- 3. Democracy and Expertise: Socrates vs. Protagoras (James Kierstead) -- 4. Cicero, On The Republic (Jeffrey Tatum) -- 5. Democracy without Elections: Popular Rule according to Alfarabi (Alexander Orwin) -- 6. Marsilius of Padua on Consent and Popular Sovereignty (Takashi Shogimen) -- Part II: Representative Moments -- 7. Machiavelli's Democratic Turn (Catherine Zuckert) -- 8. Spinoza's Thoughts on Democracy and his Realist Psychology (Emma Cohen de Lara and Nathan Cooper) -- 9. James Harrington and the Rule of KING PEOPLE (J.C. Davis) -- 10. Thomas Paine and Democratic Contempt (Mario Feit) -- 11. Aleksandr Radischev and the Popular Will (Andrew Kahn) -- 12. Of Democracy and Postmen: Sieyes' Contribution to Representative Democracy (Lucia Rubinelli) -- 13. "Morals and Enlightenment": Bolivar's Virtuous Democracy in the Angostura Address (Guillermo Tell Aveledo Coll) -- 14. The Puzzle of Political Leadership in Democratic Society: Tocquevillian Reflections (Ryan Balot and Zhichao Tong) -- 15. Family Selfishness and the Corruption of Public Virtue: Harriet Taylor's Enfranchisement of Women (Kathy Smits) -- 16. Max Weber's Democracy of Charisma (Sung Ho Kim) -- 17. Democracy in the Revolutionary Thought of Rosa Luxemburg (Rosemary H. T. O'Kane) -- 18. Hobson on Democracy and the Humanised Economy (Colin Tyler) -- Part III: The Post-Western Moment -- 19. Sun Yat-sen: San Min Chu I (The Three People's Principles) and Chinese Democracy (Theresa Lee) -- 20. The Necessary Gendarme: Laureano Vallenilla Lanz and Liberal Republicanism in the Time of Dictatorship (Xavier Marquez) -- 21. Lenin: the Dialectic of Democracy and Dictatorship (Paul Blackledge) -- 22. Dissent in Democracy: A Gandhian Critique (Anuradha Veeravalli) -- 23. Léopold Senghor on Poets, Poetry, Politics (Shiera Malik) -- 24. A New Reading on Authority (wilayah): Ayatollah Muhammad Mehdi Shamsuddin (Hamid Mavani) -- Conclusion (Xavier Marquez) -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index.
,
Also issued in printing.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-350-00617-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-350-00616-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350006195
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