Democratic Moments

Democratic Moments
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9781350006157
ISBN-13 : 1350006157
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Book Synopsis Democratic Moments by : Xavier Márquez

Download or read book Democratic Moments written by Xavier Márquez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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