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Teachers of the People - Political Education in Rousseau, Hegel, Tocqueville, and Mill (Paperback)
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2016 witnessed an unprecedented shock to political elites in both
Europe and America. Populism was on the march, fueled by a
substantial ignorance of, or contempt for, the norms, practices,
and institutions of liberal democracy. It is not surprising that
observers on the left and right have called for renewed efforts at
civic education. For liberal democracy to survive, they argue, a
form of political education aimed at "the people" is clearly
imperative. In Teachers of the People, Dana Villa takes us back to
the moment in history when "the people" first appeared on the stage
of modern European politics. That moment--the era just before and
after the French Revolution--led many major thinkers to celebrate
the dawning of a new epoch. Yet these same thinkers also worried
intensely about the people's seemingly evident lack of political
knowledge, experience, and judgment. Focusing on Rousseau, Hegel,
Tocqueville, and Mill, Villa shows how reformist and progressive
sentiments were often undercut by skepticism concerning the
political capacity of ordinary people. They therefore felt that
"the people" needed to be restrained, educated, and guided--by laws
and institutions and a skilled political elite. The result, Villa
argues, was less the taming of democracy's wilder impulses than a
pervasive paternalism culminating in new forms of the tutorial
state. Ironically, it is the reliance upon the distinction between
"teachers" and "taught" in the work of these theorists which
generates civic passivity and ignorance. And this, in turn, creates
conditions favorable to the emergence of an undemocratic and
illiberal populism.
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Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2019 |
Authors: |
Dana Villa
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
376 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-63762-4 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-226-63762-X |
Barcode: |
9780226637624 |
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