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Setting the People Free - The Story of Democracy, Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition) Loot Price: R469
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Setting the People Free - The Story of Democracy, Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition): John Dunn

Setting the People Free - The Story of Democracy, Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)

John Dunn; Preface by John Dunn

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Why does democracy-as a word and as an idea-loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for a local Greek difficulty 2,500 years ago, through its near extinction, to its rebirth amid the struggles of the French Revolution. Celebrated political theorist John Dunn then charts the slow but insistent metamorphosis of democracy over the next 150 years and its apparently overwhelming triumph since 1945. He examines the differences and the extraordinary continuities that modern democratic states share with their Greek antecedents and explains why democracy evokes intellectual and moral scorn for some, and vital allegiance from others. Now with a new preface and conclusion that ground this landmark work firmly in the present, Setting the People Free is a unique and brilliant account of an extraordinary idea.

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Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2018
First published: 2019
Authors: John Dunn
Preface by: John Dunn
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 256
Edition: 2nd edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18003-8
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN: 0-691-18003-2
Barcode: 9780691180038

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