John R Wallach

Democracy and Goodness

A Historicist Political Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

Proposes a new democratic theory, rooted in activity not consent, and intrinsically related to historical understandings of power and ethics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781108422574
• ISBN-10: 1108422578
• Artikelnr.: 48807675

Autorenporträt

John R. Wallach is Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Previous to this, he has been a Liberal Arts Fellow in Political Science at Harvard Law School and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College and University Teachers. He is author of The Platonic Political Art: A Study of Critical Reason and Democracy (2001) and Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstruction of American Democracy, co-edited with J. Peter Euben and Josiah Ober (1994).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Historicizing democratic ethics
2. Democracy and virtue in ancient Athens
3. Representation as a political virtue and the formation of liberal democracy
4. Civil rightness: a virtuous discipline for the modern Demos
5. Democracy and legitimacy: popular justification of states amid contemporary globalization
6. Human rights and democracy
Conclusion: political action and retrospection
Bibliography
Index.