Overview

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This collection of short essays on texts in the history of democracy shows the diversity of ideas that contributed to the making of our present democratic moment. The selection of texts goes beyond the standard, Western-centric canonical history of democracy, with its beginnings in ancient Athens and its climax in the French and American revolutions, recovering some of the significant body of democratic and anti-democratic thought in Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere. It includes discussions of well-known philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, but also of a variety of thinkers much less well known in English as writers on democracy: Al Farabi, Bolívar, Gandhi, Radishchev, Lenin, Sun Yat-sen, and many others. The essays thus de-center our understanding of the moments where the idea of democracy was articulated, rejected, and appropriated. Spanning antiquity to the present and global in scope, with contributions by key scholars of democracy from around the world, Democratic Moments is the ideal text for all students wishing to expand their understanding of the ways in which this contested concept has been understood.

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Author:   Xavier Márquez (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.360kg
ISBN:  

9781350006171

ISBN 10:   1350006173
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   08 February 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction, Xavier Márquez, Victoria, (University of Wellington, New Zealand) 1. Herodotus’s Political Ecologies, Joel Alden Schlosser, (Bryn Mawr College, USA) 2. Protagoras’s Cooperative Know-how, James Kierstead, (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) 3. Aristotle on Democracy and Democracies, Kevin M. Cherry, (University of Richmond, UK) 4. Cicero, On the Republic, W. Jeffrey Tatum, (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) 5. Democracy without Elections: Popular Rule according to Alfarabi, Alexander Orwin, (Louisiana State University, USA) 6. Consent and Popular Sovereignty in Medieval Political Thought: Marsilius of Padua’s Defensor pacis, Takashi Shogimen, (University of Otago, New Zealand) 7. Machiavelli’s Democratic Turn, Catherine H. Zuckert, (University of Notre Dame, USA) 8. James Harrington and the Rule of King People, J. C. Davis, (University of East Anglia, UK) 9. Baruch Spinoza: Radical Republican, Emma Cohen de Lara and Nathan Cooper, (Amsterdam University College, Netherlands) 10. Thomas Paine and Democratic Contempt, Mario Feit, (Georgia State University, USA) 11. Alexander Radishchev’s Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow: The Defence of Natural Rights and the Right to Self-defence Andrew Kahn, (Oxford University, UK) 12. Of Postmen and Democracy: Sieyès’s Theory of Representation, Lucia Rubinelli, (London School of Economics, UK) 13. ‘Morals and Enlightenment’: Bolivar’s Virtuous Democracy in the Angostura Address, Guillermo Aveledo, (Universidad Metropolitana, Venezuela) 14. The Puzzle of Political Leadership in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, Ryan K. Balot and Zhichao Tong,(University of Toronto, Canada) 15. ‘Family Selfishness’ and the Corruption of Public Virtue: Harriet Taylor Mill’s Enfranchisement of Women, Katherine Smits, (University of Auckland, New Zealand) 16. Lenin: Soviet Democracy in 1917, Paul Blackledge, (London South Bank University, UK) 17. Democracy in the Revolutionary thought of Rosa Luxemburg, Rosemary H. T. O’Kane, (Keele University, UK) 18. Max Weber’s Charismatic Democracy, Xavier Márquez, (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) 19. An Alternative Democracy: Dissent in Gandhi’s Great Trial of 1922 Anuradha Veeravalli, (Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla) 20. Sun Yat-sen: People’s Democracy and Chinese Democracy Theresa Man Ling Lee, (University of Guelph, Canada) 21. Hobson on Democracy and the Humanized Economy, Colin Tyler, (University of Hull, UK) 22. A New Reading on Authority and Guardianship (wilayah): Ayatollah Muhammad Mahdi Shamsuddin, Hamid Mavani, (Claremont School of Theology, USA) Conclusion, Xavier Marquez, (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

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This is an ambitious and exciting collection that begins to fill an enormous gap in political theory literature. Where much existing work in the field is content to present democracy - and democratic moments - as historically or paradigmatically Western, this volume breaks bold new ground in truly situating discussion of democracy across time and space. From this perspective there emerges a more creative, and certainly more accurate, picture of what democracy is, what it might be, and how it has been thought about in the course of human history - including not only work from the ancient Greeks and Romans but also hugely influential writers such as the Abbe Sieyes, Sun Yat-sen, and al-Farabi. * Leigh Jenco, Professor of Political Theory, London School of Economics, UK * This collection of deeply challenging short essays brings together thinkers grappling with the challenges and promises of their own times and places, and invites us to try to learn from them as we ponder our own difficult moment. We encounter here analyses of democracy from classical antiquity, the modern West, medieval Baghdad, eighteenth-century Russia, colonial India, rebellious China, and more. * John Markoff, Distinguished University Professor of Sociology, History, and Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, USA *

Author Information

Xavier Márquez is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory and Political Science at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of A Stranger’s Knowledge: Statesmanship, Philosophy and Law in Plato’s Statesman (2012) and of Non-democratic Politics: Authoritarianism, Dictatorship, and Democratization (2016).

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