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This volume provides a fresh perspective on current democratic theory and practice by recovering the rich evaluations of democracy in the history of political thought. Each author addresses a single thinker’s reflections on the virtues and defects of democracy and the relationship between democracy and other regimes. Together, these essays explore the tensions within the democratic way of life that arise from an attachment to equality, liberty, citizenship, law, and the divine. Above all, this work aims at recovering a more complex understanding of democracy, connecting the perennial questions of political philosophy to the perplexities and crises of modern democracy.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Politics of Democracy by Stephen A. Block, Patrick N. Cain, and Stephen Patrick Sims
Chapter 1: To Bear the Blame for All Time: The Role of Judah in the Joseph Story by J. David Alvis
Chapter 2: Of Power, Worthiness, and Equality: Homeric Melancholia and Democratic Theory by Arlene W. Saxonhouse
Chapter 3: Equality of Speech: Athenian Democracy in the Histories of Herodotus by Ann Ward
Chapter 4: Democracy and Demagogy in Thucydides by Steven Forde
Chapter 5: Plato's Democratic Moment by Mary P. Nichols
Chapter 6: Aristotle on Statesmanship, Freedom, and the Spirit of Democracy by Stephen A. Block
Chapter 7: Cicero's Populism by Stephen Patrick Sims
Chapter 8: Reflections on Augustine and Democracy by Douglas Kries
Chapter 9: Democracy in Muslim Spain: Averroes's Domestic Account of Popular Rule by Alexander Orwin
Chapter 10: Thomas Aquinas on Democracy and the Best Regime by Patrick N. Cain
Chapter 11: Machiavelli on the Possibilities and Problems of Democratic Politics by Cather

Product details

Published 29 Jun 2021
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 432
ISBN 9781793621597
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 254 x 186 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Patrick N. Cain

Anthology Editor

Stephen Patrick Sims

Anthology Editor

Stephen A. Block

Contributor

J. David Alvis

Contributor

Timothy Burns

Contributor

Mark Blitz

Contributor

Daniel E. Burns

Contributor

Patrick N. Cain

Contributor

David Clinton

Contributor

Steven Forde

Contributor

Jerome C. Foss

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Douglas Kries

Contributor

Sara MacDonald

Contributor

William Mathie

Contributor

Mary P. Nichols

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Alexander Orwin

Contributor

Sean D. Sutton

Contributor

Ann Ward

Contributor

Lee Ward

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