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Democracy and the history of political thought / edited by Patrick N. Cain, Stephen Patrick Sims, and Stephen A. Block.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--Philosophy--History.
- Democracy.
- Political science--Philosophy--History.
- Political science.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- History.
- Democracy--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 423 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: The politics of democracy / Stephen A. Block, Patrick N. Cain, and Stephen Patrick Sims
- To bear the blame for all time : the role of Judah in the Joseph story / J. David Alvis
- Of power, worthiness, and equality : Homeric melancholia and democratic theory / Arlene W. Saxonhouse
- Equality of speech : Athenian democracy in the histories of Herodotus / Ann Ward
- Democracy and demagogy in Thucydides / Steven Forde
- Plato's democratic moment / Mary P. Nichols
- Aristotle on statesmanship, freedom, and the spirit of democracy / Stephen A. Block
- Cicero's populism / Stephen Patrick Sims
- Reflections on Augustine and democracy / Douglas Kries
- Democracy in Muslim Spain : Averroes's domestic account of popular rule / Alexander Orwin
- Thomas Aquinas on democracy and the best regime / Patrick N. Cain
- Machiavelli on the possibilities and problems of democratic politics / Catherine H. Zuckert
- Politics, rhetoric, and philosophy in Hobbes' Leviathan / William Mathie
- Democracy in the thought of John Locke / Daniel E. Burns
- The place of democracy in Montesquieu's spirit of the laws / David K. Nichols
- Rousseau of the promise and perils of democracy / Denise Schaeffer
- Edmund Burke and the dependence of democracy on community / David Clinton
- Kant's retributive liberalism / Susan Meld Shell
- Alexander Hamilton and popular government : friendly defender and friendly critic / Adam M. Carrington
- On reading James Madison : constitutional Republican or democratic theorist? / Jerome C. Foss
- Thomas Jefferson on democracy / Lee Ward
- Hegel and the civil society of imagination / Sara MacDonald
- Tocqueville on pantheism, materialism, and Catholicism / Peter Augustine Lawler
- Marx's economic science and liberal democracy / Sean D. Sutton
- Heidegger and democracy / Mark Blitz
- Leo Strauss on democracy, technology, and liberal education / Timothy Burns.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 27, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Democracy and the history of political thought
- ISBN:
- 9781793621603
- 1793621608
- Publisher Number:
- 40030640879
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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