{"product_id":"9781350006164","title":"Democratic Moments Reading Democratic Texts","description":"\u003ch3\u003eTextual Moments in the History of Political Thought\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eDemocratic Moments\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eReading Democratic Texts\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eXavier Márquez | J. C. Davis | John Morrow\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolitical Science \/ Political Ideologies \/ Democracy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Spanning antiquity to the present and global in scope, with contributions by key scholars of democracy from around the world, \u003ci\u003eDemocratic Moments\u003c\/i\u003e is the ideal text for all students wishing to expand their understanding of the ways in which this contested concept has been understood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eXavier Márquez\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory and Political Science at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Stranger's Knowledge: Statesmanship, Philosophy and Law in Plato's \u003c\/i\u003eStatesman\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(2012) and of \u003ci\u003eNon-democratic Politics: Authoritarianism, Dictatorship, and Democratization\u003c\/i\u003e (2016).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e08 February 2018\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350006164\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e218\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17.12\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51219985793164,"sku":"9781350006164","price":117.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_5a719a21-9db1-478d-a106-6fce837f531a.jpg?v=1783033921","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350006164","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}