Breaking Democracy's Spell (inbunden)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
208
Utgivningsdatum
2014-07-29
Förlag
Yale University Press
Illustrationer
Black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
213 x 145 x 20 mm
Vikt
359 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
6051:B&W 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Case Laminate on Creme Groundwood w/Matte Lam
ISBN
9780300179910

Breaking Democracy's Spell

av John Dunn
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2014-07-29
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In this timely and important work, eminent political theorist John Dunn argues that democracy is not synonymous with good government. The author explores the labyrinthine reality behind the basic concept of democracy, demonstrating how the political system that people in the West generally view as straightforward and obvious is, in fact, deeply unclear and, in many cases, dysfunctional. Consisting of four thought-provoking lectures, Dunns book sketches the path by which democracy became the only form of government with moral legitimacy, analyzes the contradictions and pitfalls of modern American democracy, and challenges the academic world to take responsibility for giving the world a more coherent understanding of this widely misrepresented political institution. Suggesting that the supposedly ideal marriage of liberal economics with liberal democracy can neither ensure its continuance nor even address the problems of contemporary life, this courageous analysis attempts to show how we came to be so gripped by democracys spell and why we must now learn to break it.
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Of the many excellent philosophers of democracy working today, John Dunn of Cambridge University is the one best attuned to its paradoxes. Christopher Caldwell, Financial Times -- Christopher Caldwell * Fiancial Times * Intellectually bracing . . . Dunnwho has been for decades one of the most articulate critics in the face of democratic triumphalismnow seeks to clear a path out of the maze of our ill-founded aspirations and confusions. In Breaking Democracys Spell, he has concentrated on how, despite all appearances, we have never really known what democratic rule is in the first place.Thomas Meaney, Nation -- Thomas Meaney * Nation *

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John Dunn is emeritus professor of political theory at Kings College, Cambridge, and one of the founders of the Cambridge school of political thought.

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