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Toward Democracy - The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought (Paperback)
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Toward Democracy - The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought (Paperback)
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In this magnificent and encyclopedic overview, James T. Kloppenberg
presents the history of democracy from the perspective of those who
struggled to envision and achieve it. The story of democracy
remains one without an ending, a dynamic of progress and regress
that continues to our own day. In the classical age "democracy" was
seen as the failure rather than the ideal of good governance.
Democracies were deemed chaotic and bloody, indicative of rule by
the rabble rather than by enlightened minds. Beginning in the 16th
and 17th centuries, however, first in Europe and then in England's
North American colonies, the reputation of democracy began to rise,
resulting in changes that were sometimes revolutionary and
dramatic, sometimes gradual and incremental. Kloppenberg offers a
fresh look at how concepts and institutions of representative
government developed and how understandings of self-rule changed
over time on both sides of the Atlantic. Notions about what
constituted true democracy preoccupied many of the most influential
thinkers of the Western world, from Montaigne and Roger Williams to
Milton and John Locke; from Rousseau and Jefferson to
Wollstonecraft and Madison; and from de Tocqueville and J. S. Mill
to Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Over three centuries, explosive
ideas and practices of democracy sparked revolutions-English,
American, and French-that again and again culminated in civil wars,
disastrous failures of democracy that impeded further progress.
Comprehensive, provocative, and authoritative, Toward Democracy
traces self-government through three pivotal centuries. The product
of twenty years of research and reflection, this momentous work
reveals how nations have repeatedly fallen short in their attempts
to construct democratic societies based on the principles of
autonomy, equality, deliberation, and reciprocity that they have
claimed to prize. Underlying this exploration lies Kloppenberg's
compelling conviction that democracy was and remains an ethical
ideal rather than merely a set of institutions, a goal toward which
we continue to struggle.
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