{"product_id":"theories-of-tyranny-from-plato-to-arendt-latin-america-9780271014586","title":"Theories of Tyranny From Plato to Arendt Latin","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis text provides a survey of the way that prominent thinkers (ranging from Plato, Aristotle and Tacitus to Tocqueville, Max Weber and Hannah Arendt) have discussed the problem of tyrannical government from ancient Greece to the mid-20th century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A great achievement in the scholarship of political philosophy. Anyone who wants to think deeply about the meaning of tyranny must read it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Political Science Review (APSR)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lucid in its analysis and accessible in style, Boesche’s book will prove to be a wonderful companion piece for students looking for a fresh interpretive angle on the classic texts of political philosophy.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003eReview of Metaphysics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book is an unexpected pleasure. Unexpected, because the topic of tyranny might seem antiquated, dark, and plain uninviting. But the subject becomes perversely fascinating under Roger Boesche’s pen. Written in steady, jargon-free prose, \u003ci\u003eTheories of Tyranny\u003c\/i\u003e holds the reader’s attention and sustains one’s interest over the course of almost 500 pages. . . . Each well-researched chapter contains insightful gems. . . . The strength of the book—I would even say the marvel of the book—is that Boesche truly identifies or at least creatively redescribes an entire subterranean ‘tradition’ of discourse in the European canon just at the time when that form of theorizing was thought to be exhausted or discredited.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePolitical Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Boesche’s] treatment of such different authors as Tacitus, Tocqueville, and Freud is clever, elegant, and never perfunctory; his final definition of tyranny as ‘the form of government that least meets human needs’ is both correct and attractive, for it reminds us that tyranny is not only the symbol of political evil but also an actual form of government that too many people have experienced.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Always clear and concise. . . . original. . . . provocative.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book is not only a significant historical and analytical study of the idea and concept of tyranny—a project that is in itself unique and distinctive—but a sensitive and creative rendering of the classic texts that are discussed as well as of the work of twentieth-century theorists such as Arendt.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—John Gunnell,SUNY at Albany\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a very useful volume on an important, but neglected, topic. Boesche skillfully reconstructs the rich tradition of reflection on tyranny in Western political thought.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Bernard Yack,University of Wisconsin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Plato: The Political Psychology of Tyranny\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Aristotle: Tyranny as Unnatural\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Tacitus: Tyranny as a Politics of Pretense\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Machiavelli: Defeating Princely Tyrannies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Montesquieu’s Two Theories of Despotism: Fearing Monarchs and Merchants\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Tocqueville: The Pleasures of Servitude\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Marx: Despotism of Class and Workplace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Freud: The Reproduction of Tyranny\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Weber: The Inevitability of Bureaucratic Domination\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Fromm, Neumann, and Arendt: Three Early Interpretations of Nazi Germany\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Thinking About Tyranny\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400773738839,"sku":"9780271014586","price":49.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/theories-of-tyranny-from-plato-to-arendt-latin-america-9780271014586","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}