Democratic Despotisms
Is it possible to speak of democratic despotisms, to attribute the adjective ""democratic"", in the plural, to despotism? Can there be several types of despotism, simultaneously, in a democratic horizon? This book is born form the intuition that the answer to this question is pos...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2022
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| Zusammenfassung: | Is it possible to speak of democratic despotisms, to attribute the adjective ""democratic"", in the plural, to despotism? Can there be several types of despotism, simultaneously, in a democratic horizon? This book is born form the intuition that the answer to this question is positive; however, like any work that requires the activity of thinking, the initial hypothesis had to be tested. Through a dialogue with Alexis de Tocqueville, Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault, this book reconstructs some of their political concepts in order to create a broad theoretical horizon in which w |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 183 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 1527589390 9781527589391 |