Democracy and the history of political thought. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Patrick N. Cain, Stephen Patrick Sims, Stephen A. Block.
• Editors: Cain, Patrick N, 1979-; Sims, Stephen Patrick; Block, Stephen A
• Contents: Introduction: The Politics of Democracy by Stephen A. Block, Patrick N. Cain, and Stephen Patrick Sims Chapter 1: To Bear the Blame for All Time: The Role of Judah in the Joseph Story by J. David Alvis Chapter 2: Of Power, Worthiness, and Equality: Homeric Melancholia and Democratic Theory by Arlene W. Saxonhouse Chapter 3: Equality of Speech: Athenian Democracy in the Histories of Herodotus by Ann Ward Chapter 4: Democracy and Demagogy in Thucydides by Steven Forde Chapter 5: Plato’s Democratic Moment by Mary P. Nichols Chapter 6: Aristotle on Statesmanship, Freedom, and the Spirit of Democracy by Stephen A. Block Chapter 7: Cicero’s Populism by Stephen Patrick Sims Chapter 8: Reflections on Augustine and Democracy by Douglas Kries Chapter 9: Democracy in Muslim Spain: Averroes’s Domestic Account of Popular Rule by Alexander Orwin Chapter 10: Thomas Aquinas on Democracy and the Best Regime by Patrick N. Cain Chapter 11: Machiavelli on the Possibilities and Problems of Democratic Politics by Catherine H. Zuckert Chapter 12: Politics, Rhetoric, and Philosophy in Hobbes’ Leviathan by William Mathie Chapter 13: Democracy in the Thought of John Locke by Daniel E. Burns Chapter 14: The Place of Democracy in Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws by David K. Nichols Chapter 15: Rousseau of the Promise and Perils of Democracy by Denise Schaeffer Chapter 16: Edmund Burke and the Dependence of Democracy on Community by David Clinton Chapter 17: Kant’s Retributive Liberalism by Susan Meld Shell Chapter 18: Alexander Hamilton and Popular Government: Friendly Defender and Friendly Critic by Adam M. Carrington Chapter 19: On Reading James Madison: Constitutional Republican or Democratic Theorist? by Jerome C. Foss Chapter 20: Thomas Jefferson on Democracy by Lee Ward Chapter 21: Hegel and the Civil Society of Imagination by Sara MacDonald Chapter 22: Tocqueville on Pantheism, Materialism, and Catholicism by Peter Augustine Lawler Chapter 23: Marx’s Economic Science and Liberal Democracy by Sean D. Sutton Chapter 24: Heidegger and Democracy by Mark Blitz Chapter 25: Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education by Timothy Burns
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 321.8; Democracy; Political science -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781793621603
• Related ISBNs: 9781793621597; 9781793621610
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