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