{"product_id":"democracy-and-the-history-of-political-thought-9781793621597","title":"Democracy and the History of Political Thought","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume provides a fresh perspective on current democratic theory and practice by recovering the rich evaluations of democracy in the history of political thought. Each author addresses a single thinker’s reflections on the virtues and defects of democracy and the relationship between democracy and other regimes. Together, these essays explore the tensions within the democratic way of life that arise from an attachment to equality, liberty, citizenship, law, and the divine. Above all, this work aims at recovering a more complex understanding of democracy, connecting the perennial questions of political philosophy to the perplexities and crises of modern democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Politics of Democracy by Stephen A. Block, Patrick N. Cain, and Stephen Patrick Sims\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: To Bear the Blame for All Time: The Role of Judah in the Joseph Story by J. David Alvis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Of Power, Worthiness, and Equality: Homeric Melancholia and Democratic Theory by Arlene W. Saxonhouse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Equality of Speech: Athenian Democracy in the Histories of Herodotus by Ann Ward\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Democracy and Demagogy in Thucydides by Steven Forde\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Plato’s Democratic Moment by Mary P. Nichols\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Aristotle on Statesmanship, Freedom, and the Spirit of Democracy by Stephen A. Block\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Cicero’s Populism by Stephen Patrick Sims\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Reflections on Augustine and Democracy by Douglas Kries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Democracy in Muslim Spain: Averroes’s Domestic Account of Popular Rule by Alexander Orwin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Thomas Aquinas on Democracy and the Best Regime by Patrick N. Cain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Machiavelli on the Possibilities and Problems of Democratic Politics by Catherine H. Zuckert\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Politics, Rhetoric, and Philosophy in Hobbes’ Leviathan by William Mathie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Democracy in the Thought of John Locke by Daniel E. Burns\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14: The Place of Democracy in Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws by David K. Nichols\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15: Rousseau of the Promise and Perils of Democracy by Denise Schaeffer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16: Edmund Burke and the Dependence of Democracy on Community by David Clinton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17: Kant’s Retributive Liberalism by Susan Meld Shell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18: Alexander Hamilton and Popular Government: Friendly Defender and Friendly Critic by Adam M. Carrington\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 19: On Reading James Madison: Constitutional Republican or Democratic Theorist? by Jerome C. Foss\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 20: Thomas Jefferson on Democracy by Lee Ward\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 21: Hegel and the Civil Society of Imagination by Sara MacDonald\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 22: Tocqueville on Pantheism, Materialism, and Catholicism by Peter Augustine Lawler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 23: Marx’s Economic Science and Liberal Democracy by Sean D. Sutton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 24: Heidegger and Democracy by Mark Blitz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 25: Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education by Timothy Burns\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042645541207,"sku":"9781793621597","price":107.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793621597.jpg?v=1750954991","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/democracy-and-the-history-of-political-thought-9781793621597","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}