Democracy: A Life Paul Cartledge

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Paul Cartledge - «Democracy: A Life»

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Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy," yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and Aristotle onwards- was ambivalent towards or even hostile to democracy in any form. The explanation for this is quite simple: the elite perceived majority power as tantamount to a dictatorship of the proletariat. In ancient Greece there can be traced not only the rudiments of modern democratic society but the entire Western tradition of anti-democratic thought. In Democracy, Paul Cartledge provides a detailed history of this ancient political system. In addition, by drawing out the salient differences between ancient and modern forms of democracy he enables a richer understanding of both. Cartledge contends that there is no one "ancient Greek democracy" as pure and simple as is often believed. Democracy surveys the emergence and development of Greek politics, the invention of political theory, and-intimately connected to the latter- the birth of democracy,... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Democracy: A Life (Paul Cartledge)

Полное название книги Paul Cartledge Democracy: A Life
Автор Paul Cartledge
Ключевые слова политология, политика
Категории Образование и наука, Политология
ISBN 9780199837458
Издательство Oxford University Press
Год 2016
Название транслитом democracy-a-life-paul-cartledge
Название с ошибочной раскладкой democracy: a life paul cartledge