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The Pursuit of Equality in the West (Hardcover)
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The Pursuit of Equality in the West (Hardcover)
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One of the world's foremost historians of Western political and
legal thought proposes a bold new model for thinking about equality
at a time when its absence threatens democracies everywhere. How
much equality does democracy need to survive? Political thinkers
have wrestled with that question for millennia. Aristotle argued
that some are born to command and others to obey. Antiphon believed
that men, at least, were born equal. Later the Romans upended the
debate by asking whether citizens were equals not in ruling but in
standing before the law. Aldo Schiavone guides us through these and
other historical thickets, from the first democracy to the present
day, seeking solutions to the enduring tension between democracy
and inequality. Turning from Antiquity to the modern world,
Schiavone shows how the American and the French revolutions
attempted to settle old debates, introducing a new way of thinking
about equality. Both the French revolutionaries and the American
colonists sought democracy and equality together, but the European
tradition (British Labour, Russian and Eastern European Marxists,
and Northern European social democrats) saw formal
equality-equality before the law-as a means of obtaining economic
equality. The American model, in contrast, adopted formal equality
while setting aside the goal of economic equality. The Pursuit of
Equality in the West argues that the United States and European
models were compatible with industrial-age democracy, but neither
suffices in the face of today's technological revolution. Opposing
both atomization and the obsolete myths of the collective,
Schiavone thinks equality anew, proposing a model founded on
neither individualism nor the erasure of the individual but rather
on the universality of the impersonal human, which coexists with
the sea of differences that makes each of us unique.
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