The Democracy Reader: From Classical to Contemporary Philosophy

ISBN 10: 1538157551 / ISBN 13: 9781538157558

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Democracy Reader: From Classical to Contemporary Philosophy
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1538157551
• ISBN-13: 9781538157558
• Einband: paperback
• Zustand: Very Good

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

This timely anthology gathers forty historical and contemporary treatments of democracy. Short introductions precede each reading and a general introduction increases student comprehension across the spectrum of readings. This volume is ideal for both the undergraduate and graduate students in political theory and philosophy courses.

Historical readings include selections from Plato, Aristotle, Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the US Founding Fathers, Alexis de Tocqueville, Karl Marx, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, John Stuart Mill, W.E.B. Du Bois, John Dewey, and John Rawls. Contemporary readings include essays by Richard J. Arneson, Elizabeth Anderson, Sevla Benhabib, David Estlund, Jason Brennan, Julia Maskivker, Iris Marion Young, and Robert B. Talisse.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Steven M. Cahn is professor emeritus of philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Andrew Forcehimes is associate professor of philosophy at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Robert B. Talisse is the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.