Democratic Moments Reading Democratic Texts 1st Edition by Xavier Márquez ISBN 9781350006164 1350006165

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ISBN 10: 1350006165
ISBN 13: 9781350006164
Author: Xavier Márquez

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-centre 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

Democratic Moments Reading Democratic Texts 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 Herodotus’s Political Ecologies
2 Protagoras’s Cooperative Know-how
3 Aristotle on Democracy and Democracies
4 Cicero, On the Republic
5 Democracy without Elections: Popular Rule according to Alfarabi
6 Consent and Popular Sovereignty in Medieval Political Thought: Marsilius of Padua’s Defensor pacis
7 Machiavelli’s Democratic Turn
8 James Harrington and the Rule of King People
9 Baruch Spinoza: Radical Republican
10 Thomas Paine and Democratic Contempt
11 Alexander Radishchev’s Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow: The Defence of Natural Rights and the Right to Self-defence
12 Of Postmen and Democracy: Sieyès’s Theory of Representation
13 ‘Morals and Enlightenment’: Bolívar’s Virtuous Democracy in the Angostura Address
14 The Puzzle of Political Leadership in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
15 ‘Family Selfishness’ and the Corruption of Public Virtue: Harriet Taylor Mill’s Enfranchisement of Women
16 Lenin: Soviet Democracy in 1917
17 Democracy in the Revolutionary Thought of Rosa Luxemburg
18 Max Weber’s Charismatic Democracy
19 An Alternative Democracy: Dissent in Gandhi’s Great Trial of 1922
20 Sun Yat-sen: People’s Democracy and Chinese Democracy
21 Hobson on Democracy and the Humanized Economy
22 A New Reading on Authority and Guardianship (wilayah): Ayatollah Muhammad Mahdi Shamsuddin
Conclusion
Suggestions for further reading
Index

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