Democratic moments : reading democratic texts
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Democratic moments : reading democratic texts
（Textual moments in the history of political thought）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
- : PB
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-196) and index
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Description
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
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, Bolivar, 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.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Xavier Marquez, Victoria, (University of Wellington, New Zealand)
1. Herodotus's Political Ecologies, Joel Alden Schlosser, (Bryn Mawr College, USA)
2. Protagoras's Cooperative Know-how, James Kierstead, (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
3. Aristotle on Democracy and Democracies, Kevin M. Cherry, (University of Richmond, UK)
4. Cicero, On the Republic, W. Jeffrey Tatum, (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
5. Democracy without Elections: Popular Rule according to Alfarabi, Alexander Orwin, (Louisiana State University, USA)
6. Consent and Popular Sovereignty in Medieval Political Thought: Marsilius of Padua's Defensor pacis, Takashi Shogimen, (University of Otago, New Zealand)
7. Machiavelli's Democratic Turn, Catherine H. Zuckert, (University of Notre Dame, USA)
8. James Harrington and the Rule of King People, J. C. Davis, (University of East Anglia, UK)
9. Baruch Spinoza: Radical Republican, Emma Cohen de Lara and Nathan Cooper, (Amsterdam University College, Netherlands)
10. Thomas Paine and Democratic Contempt, Mario Feit, (Georgia State University, USA)
11. Alexander Radishchev's Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow: The Defence of Natural Rights and the Right to Self-defence Andrew Kahn, (Oxford University, UK)
12. Of Postmen and Democracy: Sieyes's Theory of Representation, Lucia Rubinelli, (London School of Economics, UK)
13. 'Morals and Enlightenment': Bolivar's Virtuous Democracy in the Angostura Address, Guillermo Aveledo, (Universidad Metropolitana, Venezuela)
14. The Puzzle of Political Leadership in Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Ryan K. Balot and Zhichao Tong,(University of Toronto, Canada)
15. 'Family Selfishness' and the Corruption of Public Virtue: Harriet Taylor Mill's Enfranchisement of Women, Katherine Smits, (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
16. Lenin: Soviet Democracy in 1917, Paul Blackledge, (London South Bank University, UK)
17. Democracy in the Revolutionary thought of Rosa Luxemburg, Rosemary H. T. O'Kane, (Keele University, UK)
18. Max Weber's Charismatic Democracy, Xavier Marquez, (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
19. An Alternative Democracy: Dissent in Gandhi's Great Trial of 1922 Anuradha Veeravalli, (Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla)
20. Sun Yat-sen: People's Democracy and Chinese Democracy Theresa Man Ling Lee, (University of Guelph, Canada)
21. Hobson on Democracy and the Humanized Economy, Colin Tyler, (University of Hull, UK)
22. A New Reading on Authority and Guardianship (wilayah): Ayatollah Muhammad Mahdi Shamsuddin, Hamid Mavani, (Claremont School of Theology, USA)
Conclusion, Xavier Marquez, (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
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