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Confronting tyranny : ancient lessons for global politics / edited by Toivo Koivukoski and David Edward Tabachnick. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Despotism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 260 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowan & Littlefield, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Why talk about tyranny today? / Catherine Zuckert
- Tyranny, ancient and modern / Mark Blitz
- Tyranny bound / David Tabachnick
- An omission from ancient and early modern theories of tyranny : genocidal tyrannies / Roger Boesche
- Failures of autonomy : a Hegelian diagnosis of modern tyranny / Douglas Moggach
- What is "tyranny"? : considering the contested discourse of domination in the twenty-first century / Simon Tormey
- Postcolonial African and Middle Eastern tyrannies : combing the worst of the classical and modern traditions / Daniel Chirot
- Tyranny and tragedy in Nietzsche : from the ancient to the modern / Tracy B. Strong
- Tyranny from Plato to Locke / Nathan Tarcov
- Is there an ontology of tyranny? / Waller R. Newell
- Tyranny and the womanish soul / Leah Bradshaw
- The soul of the tyrant, and the souls of you and me : Plato's understanding of tyranny / Ronald Beiner
- The education of a tyrant / Toivo Koivukoski
- The folly of the wise? / Thomas Smith
- In the shadow of the fortress / Barry Strauss
- The new age of tyranny / Mark Lilla.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-7425-6862-8
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