Setting the People Free
Setting the People Free Why does democracy--as a word and as an idea--loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Celebrated political theorist…
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Setting the People Free
Why does democracy--as a word and as an idea--loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Celebrated political theorist John Dunn then charts the slow but insistent metamorphosis of democracy over the next 150 years and its apparently overwhelming triumph since 1945. Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for a local Greek difficulty 2,500 years ago, through its near extinction, to its rebirth amid the struggles of the French Revolution.
Now with a new preface and conclusion that ground this landmark work firmly in the present, Setting the He examines the differences and the extraordinary continuities that modern democratic states share with their Greek antecedents and explains why democracy evokes intellectual and moral scorn for some, and vital allegiance from others.
Setting the People Free
Setting Free the Kites
Setting Free the Bears
Raising Free People
Setting the Agenda
Setting the Table
The Setting Sun
The Setting of the Sun
Setting the East Ablaze