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Setting the People Free
John Dunn
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Philosophie
Beschreibung
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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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Legitimacy (political), Democracy, Dissident, Monarchy, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, Tractatus Politicus, Political structure, United States, Politician, Precedent, Edward Said, Government, Citizenship, Liberal democracy, Institution, Girondins, Requirement, Alexis de Tocqueville, Ian Shapiro, Greek democracy, Capitalism, Wealth, Against Democracy, Adam Przeworski, Bernard Bailyn, Committee of Public Safety, Division of labour, Francis Fukuyama, Exclusion, Tony Judt, Representative democracy, Tyrant, Thomas Hobbes, Democracy in America, Theft, Regime, Legislature, Political philosophy, Suffrage, Multitude, Moses Finley, Slavery, Political history, Sovereignty, Athenian Democracy, Jeremy Bentham, Political system, Tax, Public administration, State (polity), Great power, Princeton University Press, Forms of government, Republic, Ruler, Deliberation, Oligarchy, Thucydides, Raymond Geuss, Joseph Schumpeter, Constitution, Direct democracy, Political party, Guillermo O'Donnell, Cambridge University Press, Politics, Aristocracy, Political strategy, Despotism