{"product_id":"democratic-moments-textual-moments-in-the-history-of-political-thought-reading-democratic-texts-9781350006164","title":"Democratic Moments Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought Reading Democratic Texts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eXavier Márquez\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory and Political Science at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Stranger's Knowledge: Statesmanship, Philosophy and Law in Plato's \u003c\/i\u003eStatesman\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(2012) and of \u003ci\u003eNon-democratic Politics: Authoritarianism, Dictatorship, and Democratization\u003c\/i\u003e (2016).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is an ambitious and exciting collection that begins to fill an enormous gap in political theory literature. Where much existing work in the field is content to present democracy - and \"democratic moments\"- as historically or paradigmatically Western, this volume breaks bold new ground in truly situating discussion of democracy across time and space. From this perspective there emerges a more creative, and certainly more accurate, picture of what democracy is, what it might be, and how it has been thought about in the course of human history - including not only work from the ancient Greeks and Romans but also hugely influential writers such as the Abbé Sieyes, Sun Yat-sen, and al-Farabi. * Leigh Jenco, Professor of Political Theory, London School of Economics, UK *\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of deeply challenging short essays brings together thinkers grappling with the challenges and promises of their own times and places, and invites us to try to learn from them as we ponder our own difficult moment. We encounter here analyses of democracy from classical antiquity, the modern West, medieval Baghdad, eighteenth-century Russia, colonial India, rebellious China, and more. * John Markoff, Distinguished University Professor of Sociology, History, and Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction, \u003ci\u003eXavier Márquez, Victoria, (University of Wellington, New Zealand\u003c\/i\u003e)  1. Herodotus’s Political Ecologies, \u003ci\u003eJoel Alden Schlosser, (Bryn Mawr College, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  2. Protagoras’s Cooperative Know-how, \u003ci\u003eJames Kierstead, (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)\u003c\/i\u003e  3. Aristotle on Democracy and Democracies, \u003ci\u003eKevin M. Cherry, (University of Richmond, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  4. Cicero, On the Republic, \u003ci\u003eW. Jeffrey Tatum, (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)\u003c\/i\u003e  5. Democracy without Elections: Popular Rule according to Alfarabi, \u003ci\u003eAlexander Orwin, (Louisiana State University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  6. Consent and Popular Sovereignty in Medieval Political Thought: Marsilius of Padua’s Defensor pacis, \u003ci\u003eTakashi Shogimen, (University of Otago, New Zealand)\u003c\/i\u003e  7. Machiavelli’s Democratic Turn, \u003ci\u003eCatherine H. Zuckert, (University of Notre Dame, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e)\u003c\/i\u003e  8. James Harrington and the Rule of King People, \u003ci\u003eJ. C. Davis, (University of East Anglia, UK\u003c\/i\u003e)  9. Baruch Spinoza: Radical Republican, \u003ci\u003eEmma Cohen de Lara and Nathan Cooper, (Amsterdam University College, Netherlands\u003c\/i\u003e)  10. Thomas Paine and Democratic Contempt, \u003ci\u003eMario Feit, (Georgia State University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  11. Alexander Radishchev’s Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow: The Defence of Natural Rights and the Right to Self-defence \u003ci\u003eAndrew Kahn, (Oxford University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  12. Of Postmen and Democracy: Sieyès’s Theory of Representation, \u003ci\u003eLucia Rubinelli, (London School of Economics, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  13. ‘Morals and Enlightenment’: Bolivar’s Virtuous Democracy in the Angostura Address, \u003ci\u003eGuillermo Aveledo, (Universidad Metropolitana, Venezuela)\u003c\/i\u003e  14. The Puzzle of Political Leadership in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, \u003ci\u003eRyan K. Balot and Zhichao Tong,(University of Toronto, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e  15. ‘Family Selfishness’ and the Corruption of Public Virtue: Harriet Taylor Mill’s Enfranchisement of Women, \u003ci\u003eKatherine Smits, (University of Auckland, New Zealand)\u003c\/i\u003e  16. Lenin: Soviet Democracy in 1917, \u003ci\u003ePaul Blackledge, (London South Bank University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  17. Democracy in the Revolutionary thought of Rosa Luxemburg, \u003ci\u003eRosemary H. T. O’Kane, (Keele University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  18. Max Weber’s Charismatic Democracy, \u003ci\u003eXavier Márquez, (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)\u003c\/i\u003e  19. An Alternative Democracy: Dissent in Gandhi’s Great Trial of 1922 \u003ci\u003eAnuradha Veeravalli, \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eIndian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla)\u003c\/i\u003e  20. Sun Yat-sen: People’s Democracy and Chinese Democracy \u003ci\u003eTheresa Man Ling Lee, (University of Guelph, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e  21. Hobson on Democracy and the Humanized Economy, \u003ci\u003eColin Tyler, (University of Hull, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  22. A New Reading on Authority and Guardianship (wilayah): Ayatollah Muhammad Mahdi Shamsuddin, \u003ci\u003eHamid Mavani, (Claremont School of Theology, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e  Conclusion, \u003ci\u003eXavier Marquez, (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084823785815,"sku":"9781350006164","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350006164.jpg?v=1762207282","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/democratic-moments-textual-moments-in-the-history-of-political-thought-reading-democratic-texts-9781350006164","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}