Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 289 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
030012869X
,
0300185456
,
0300189753
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1283596881
,
9780300128697
,
9780300185454
,
9780300189759
,
9781283596886
Series Statement:
The Open Yale courses series
Content:
When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates the main contending accounts of the sources of political legitimacy. Starting with theorists of the Enlightenment, he examines the arguments put forward by utilitarians, Marxists, and theorists of the social contract. Next he turns to the anti-Enlightenment tradition that stretches from Edmund Burke to contemporary post-modernists. In the last part of the book Shapiro examines partisans and critics of democracy from Plato's time until our own. He concludes with an assessment of democracy's strengths and limitations as the font of political legitimacy. The book offers a lucid and accessible introduction to urgent ongoing conversations about the sources of political allegiance
Content:
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""CHAPTER 1 Enlightenment Politics""; ""CHAPTER 2 Classical Utilitarianism""; ""CHAPTER 3 Synthesizing Rights and Utility""; ""CHAPTER 4 Marxism""; ""CHAPTER 5 The Social Contract""; ""CHAPTER 6 Anti-Enlightenment Politics""; ""CHAPTER 7 Democracy""; ""CHAPTER 8 Democracy in the Mature Enlightenment""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z
Note:
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300185454
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0300185456
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Shapiro, Ian Moral Foundations of Politics New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1900 ISBN 9780300185454
Language:
English
URL:
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Author information:
Shapiro, Ian 1956-
