Tirannie antiche e moderne

Tirannie antiche e moderne

Tyranny is a word imported into Greek vocabulary in the 7th century BCE to identify a new kind of ruler, who does not belong to a dynasty and has a great power. Tyrants started to appear in Greece in that century: sole rulers, they were the extraordinary response to a situation of civil conflict ins...

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1. autor: Giorgini, Giovanni
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Język:Italien
Wydane: Teoria politica 2020
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Plato
Populism
Tyranny
Machiavelli
Tocqueville
Dostęp online:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:tp_787 it https://journals.openedition.org/tp/787 2020-05-26T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/lh9r All rights reserved Tirannie antiche e moderne Teoria politica Rosenberg & Sellier info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1972-5477 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0394-1248 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/tp Giorgini, Giovanni Plato Populism Tyranny Machiavelli Tocqueville Tyranny is a word imported into Greek vocabulary in the 7th century BCE to identify a new kind of ruler, who does not belong to a dynasty and has a great power. Tyrants started to appear in Greece in that century: sole rulers, they were the extraordinary response to a situation of civil conflict inside the poleis. In this essay I argue that there is a discrepancy between the historical actions of tyrants and the conceptualization of this regime: leaving aside the merits or demerits of the individual tyrants, tyranny came to be seen as the emblem of evil in politics. The crucial fact for this cultural operation was the emergence of democratic ideology in Athens: the tyrant became the mirror-opposite of democratic practices. I then argue that this emblem of political evil re-emerged in many epochs in the history of Western political thought and I focus on the cases of Machiavelli and Tocqueville. I conclude with a view to what kind of tyrant should contemporary democracies fear.
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topic Plato
Populism
Tyranny
Machiavelli
Tocqueville
spellingShingle Plato
Populism
Tyranny
Machiavelli
Tocqueville
Giorgini, Giovanni
Tirannie antiche e moderne
description Tyranny is a word imported into Greek vocabulary in the 7th century BCE to identify a new kind of ruler, who does not belong to a dynasty and has a great power. Tyrants started to appear in Greece in that century: sole rulers, they were the extraordinary response to a situation of civil conflict inside the poleis. In this essay I argue that there is a discrepancy between the historical actions of tyrants and the conceptualization of this regime: leaving aside the merits or demerits of the individual tyrants, tyranny came to be seen as the emblem of evil in politics. The crucial fact for this cultural operation was the emergence of democratic ideology in Athens: the tyrant became the mirror-opposite of democratic practices. I then argue that this emblem of political evil re-emerged in many epochs in the history of Western political thought and I focus on the cases of Machiavelli and Tocqueville. I conclude with a view to what kind of tyrant should contemporary democracies fear.
author Giorgini, Giovanni
author_facet Giorgini, Giovanni
author_sort Giorgini, Giovanni
title Tirannie antiche e moderne
title_short Tirannie antiche e moderne
title_full Tirannie antiche e moderne
title_fullStr Tirannie antiche e moderne
title_full_unstemmed Tirannie antiche e moderne
title_sort tirannie antiche e moderne
publisher Teoria politica
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