The Democracy Reader (Paperback)

Steven M. Cahn

ISBN 10: 1538157551 / ISBN 13: 9781538157558

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Lanham, MD, 2021

Beschreibung

Paperback. 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, Niccolo 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. This timely anthology gathers forty historical and contemporary treatments of democracy. Short introductions precede each reading and a general introduction increase student comprehension across the spectrum of readings. The volume is ideal for both the undergraduate and graduate students in political theory and philosophy courses. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781538157558

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Democracy Reader (Paperback)
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Lanham, MD
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1538157551
• ISBN-13: 9781538157558
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: new

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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.