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The Democracy Reader

Name: The Democracy Reader
Author: Steven M. Cahn,Andrew T. Forcehimes,Robert B. Talisse

From Classical to Contemporary Philosophy

Steven M. Cahn,

Andrew T. Forcehimes,

Robert B. Talisse,

English
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eBook - ePub

The Democracy Reader

From Classical to Contemporary Philosophy

Steven M. Cahn,

Andrew T. Forcehimes,

Robert B. Talisse,

About this book

This timely anthology gathers forty historical and contemporary treatments of democracy. Short introductions precede each reading and a general introduction increases student comprehension across the spectrum of readings. This volume is ideal for both the undergraduate and graduate students in political theory and philosophy courses.

Historical readings include selections from Plato, Aristotle, Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the US Founding Fathers, Alexis de Tocqueville, Karl Marx, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, John Stuart Mill, W.E.B. Du Bois, John Dewey, and John Rawls. Contemporary readings include essays by Richard J. Arneson, Elizabeth Anderson, Sevla Benhabib, David Estlund, Jason Brennan, Julia Maskivker, Iris Marion Young, and Robert B. Talisse.

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