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dc.contributor.editorMárquez, Xavier
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-19T04:07:19Z
dc.date.available2022-01-19T04:07:19Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.date.submitted2022-01-18T13:07:58Z
dc.identifierONIX_20220118_9781350006188_11
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52479
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/77399
dc.description.abstractThis book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This collection of short essays on texts in the history of democracy shows the diversity of ideas that contributed to the making of our present democratic moment. The selection of texts goes beyond the standard, Western-centric canonical history of democracy, with its beginnings in ancient Athens and its climax in the French and American revolutions, recovering some of the significant body of democratic and anti-democratic thought in Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere. It includes discussions of well-known philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, but also of a variety of thinkers much less well known in English as writers on democracy: Al Farabi, Bolívar, Gandhi, Radishchev, Lenin, Sun Yat-sen, and many others. The essays thus de-center our understanding of the moments where the idea of democracy was articulated, rejected, and appropriated. Spanning antiquity to the present and global in scope, with contributions by key scholars of democracy from around the world, Democratic Moments is the ideal text for all students wishing to expand their understanding of the ways in which this contested concept has been understood.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTextual Moments in the History of Political Thought
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theoryen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHV Political structures: democracyen_US
dc.subject.otherHistory
dc.subject.otherPolitical History (History)
dc.subject.otherPolitical Theory and Philosophy (Politics)
dc.subject.otherIntellectual History (History)
dc.subject.otherSupplementary Standard
dc.titleDemocratic Moments
dc.title.alternativeReading Democratic Texts
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5040/9781350006195
oapen.relation.isPublishedByf75587da-2374-4722-9d42-9fffa7fa3f92
oapen.relation.isbn9781350006188
oapen.relation.isbn9781350006164
oapen.imprintBloomsbury Academic
oapen.pages216
oapen.place.publicationLondon


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