Democracy and the History of Political Thought
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Democracy and the History of Political Thought

  1. 433 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Democracy and the History of Political Thought

About this book

This volume provides a fresh perspective on current democratic theory and practice by recovering the rich evaluations of democracy in the history of political thought. Each author addresses a single thinker's reflections on the virtues and defects of democracy and the relationship between democracy and other regimes. Together, these essays explore the tensions within the democratic way of life that arise from an attachment to equality, liberty, citizenship, law, and the divine. Above all, this work aims at recovering a more complex understanding of democracy, connecting the perennial questions of political philosophy to the perplexities and crises of modern democracy.

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Yes, you can access Democracy and the History of Political Thought by Patrick N. Cain,Stephen Patrick Sims,Stephen A. Block in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Political Philosophy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: To Bear the Blame for All Time
  9. Chapter 2: Of Power, Worthiness, and Equality
  10. Chapter 3: Equality of Speech
  11. Chapter 4: Democracy and Demagogy in Thucydides
  12. Chapter 5: Plato’s Democratic Moment
  13. Chapter 6: Aristotle on Statesmanship, Freedom, and the Spirit of the Democracy
  14. Chapter 7: Cicero’s Populism
  15. Chapter 8: Reflections on Augustine and Democracy
  16. Chapter 9: Democracy in Muslim Spain
  17. Chapter 10: Thomas Aquinas on Democracy and the Best Regime
  18. Chapter 11: Machiavelli on the Possibilities and Problems of Democratic Politics
  19. Chapter 12: Politics, Rhetoric, and Philosophy in Hobbes’s Leviathan
  20. Chapter 13: Democracy in the Thought of John Locke
  21. Chapter 14: The Place of Democracy in Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws
  22. Chapter 15: Rousseau on the Promise and Perils of Democracy
  23. Chapter 16: Edmund Burke and the Dependence of Democracy on Community
  24. Chapter 17: Kant’s Retributive Liberalism
  25. Chapter 18: Alexander Hamilton and Popular Government
  26. Chapter 19: On Reading James Madison
  27. Chapter 20: Thomas Jefferson on Democracy
  28. Chapter 21: Hegel and the Civil Society of Imagination
  29. Chapter 22: Tocqueville on Pantheism, Materialism, and Catholicism
  30. Chapter 23: Marx’s Economic Science and Liberal Democracy
  31. Chapter 24: Heidegger and Democracy
  32. Chapter 25: Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education
  33. Index
  34. About the Editors and Contributors