| Democratic Moments: Reading Democratic Texts Contributor(s): Márquez, Xavier (Editor), Davis, J. C. (Editor), Morrow, John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1350006165 ISBN-13: 9781350006164 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $118.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy - History | Social History - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 321.8 |
| LCCN: 2017040897 |
| Series: Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.07 lbs) 218 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of short essays on texts in the history of democracy shows the diversity of ideas that contributed to the making of our present democratic moment. The selection of texts goes beyond the standard, Western-centric canonical history of democracy, with its beginnings in ancient Athens and its climax in the French and American revolutions, recovering some of the significant body of democratic and anti-democratic thought in Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere. It includes discussions of well-known philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, but also of a variety of thinkers much less well known in English as writers on democracy: Al Farabi, Bolívar, Gandhi, Radishchev, Lenin, Sun Yat-sen, and many others. The essays thus de-center our understanding of the moments where the idea of democracy was articulated, rejected, and appropriated. Spanning antiquity to the present and global in scope, with contributions by key scholars of democracy from around the world, Democratic Moments is the ideal text for all students wishing to expand their understanding of the ways in which this contested concept has been understood. |
Contributor Bio(s): Morrow, John: - John Morrow is Professor of Political Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland.. His publications include Coleridge's Political Thought; The History of Western Political Thought: A Thematic Introduction; Young England: The New Generation and (with Mark Francis) A History of English Political Thought in the Nineteenth Century.Marquez, Xavier: - Xavier Marquez is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory and Political Science at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of A Stranger's Knowledge: Statesmanship, Philosophy and Law in Plato's Statesman (2012) and of Non-democratic Politics: Authoritarianism, Dictatorship, and Democratization(2016). |