The Democracy Reader (eBook, ePUB)

From Classical to Contemporary Philosophy
Redaktion: Cahn, Steven M.; Talisse, Robert B.; Forcehimes, Andrew T.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This timely anthology gathers forty historical and contemporary treatments of democracy. Short introductions precede each reading and a general introduction increases student comprehension across the spectrum of readings. This volume is ideal for both the undergraduate and graduate students in political theory and philosophy courses.

Historical readings include selections from Plato, Aristotle, Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the US Founding Fathers, Alexis de Tocqueville, Karl Marx, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, John Stuart Mill, W.E.B. Du Bois, John Dewey, and John Rawls. Contemporary readings include essays by Richard J. Arneson, Elizabeth Anderson, Sevla Benhabib, David Estlund, Jason Brennan, Julia Maskivker, Iris Marion Young, and Robert B. Talisse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538157565
• Artikelnr.: 62196467

Autorenporträt

Steven M. Cahn is professor emeritus of philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Robert B. Talisse is the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Andrew Forcehimes is associate professor of philosophy at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction by Robert B. Talisse
PART ONE: CLASSIC SOURCES
Pericles: Funeral OrationPlato: CritoPlato: RepublicAristotle: Politics
Mencius: The Works of MenciusNiccolò Machiavelli: DiscoursesThomas Hobbes:
LeviathanBaruch Spinoza: Theologico-Political TreatiseJohn Locke: Second
Treatise of Government John Locke: Letter Concerning Toleration
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Of the Social Contract Edmund Burke: Speech to the
Electors of BristolThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the
United StatesAlexander Hamilton and James Madison: The Federalist Papers
#10, #51, and #70The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Alexis De Tocqueville: Democracy in AmericaKarl Marx: Economic and
Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844Frederick Douglass: What to the Slave Is the
Fourth of July?Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg AddressAbraham Lincoln: Second
Inaugural AddressJohn Stuart Mill: On LibertyJohn Stuart Mill:
Considerations on Representative GovernmentElizabeth Cady Stanton: The
Solitude of SelfW. E. B. Dubois: Of the Ruling of MenJohn Dewey: Democracy
John Rawls: The Idea of Public Reason RevisitedPART TWO: CONTEMPORARY
ISSUES
A. Justification
Richard Arneson: Democracy is Not Intrinsically JustElizabeth Anderson:
Democracy: Instrumental Vs. Non-Instrumental ValueB. Deliberation
Seyla Benhabib: Toward a Deliberative Model of Democratic LegitimacyDavid
Estlund: The Epistemic Dimension of Democratic AuthorityC. Voting
Jason Brennan: Polluting The Polls: When Citizens Should Not VoteJulia
Maskivker: Being a Good Samaritan Requires You to VoteD. Challenges
Iris Marion Young: Activist Challenges to Deliberative DemocracyRobert B.
Talisse: Polarization and Democratic Citizenship