Setting the people free : the story of democracy
"Why does democracy--as a word and as an idea--loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood ? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for a local Greek difficulty 2,500 years ago, through its...
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| Materyal Türü: | Livre numérique |
| Dil: | Anglais |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press
2018.
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université Orléans et IFPM |
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Couverture. https://static2.cyberlibris.com/books_upload/136pix/9780691183916.jpg Titre provenant de la page de titre du document numérique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de 257 p. Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) Corpus Philosophie |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • Setting the people free, the story of democracy, John Dunn, Second edition, 2019, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1 volume (XXV-225 pages), 978-0-691-18003-8 |
| Özet: | "Why does democracy--as a word and as an idea--loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood ? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for a local Greek difficulty 2,500 years ago, through its near extinction, to its rebirth amid the struggles of the French Revolution. Celebrated political theorist John Dunn then charts the slow but insistent metamorphosis of democracy over the next 150 years and its apparently overwhelming triumph since 1945. He examines the differences and the extraordinary continuities that modern democratic states share with their Greek antecedents and explains why democracy evokes intellectual and moral scorn for some, and vital allegiance from others. Now with a new preface and conclusion that ground this landmark work firmly in the present, Setting the People Free is a unique and brilliant account of an extraordinary idea." |
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| Diğer Bilgileri: | Couverture. https://static2.cyberlibris.com/books_upload/136pix/9780691183916.jpg Titre provenant de la page de titre du document numérique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de 257 p. Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) Corpus Philosophie |
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| Bibliyografya: | Notes bibliographiques. Index |
| ISBN: | 9780691183916 |
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