Against the Masses

Name: Against the Masses
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Varieties of Anti-Democratic Thought Since the French Revolution

Szerző: Joseph V. Femia

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Oxford University Press

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Given the almost universal assumption that democracy is a 'good thing', the goal of mankind, it is e...

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Szerző

Joseph V. Femia

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2001

oldal

192

EAN

9780198280637

ISBN

0198280637

Enbook ID

04524860

Kiadó

Oxford University Press

Súly

440

Méretek

168 x 237 x 24

Teljes leírás

Given the almost universal assumption that democracy is a 'good thing', the goal of mankind, it is easy to forget that 'rule by the people' has been vehemently opposed by some of the most distinguished thinkers in the Western tradition. The author attempts to combat collective amnesia by systematically exploring and evaluating anti-democratic thought since the French Revolution. Using categories first introduced by A. O. Hirschman in The Rhetoric of Reaction, Femia examines the various arguments under the headings of 'perversity', 'futility', and 'jeopardy'. This classification scheme enables him to highlight the fatalism and pessimism of anti-democratic thinkers, their conviction that democratic reform would be either pointless or destructive. Femia shows how they failed to understand the adaptability of democracy, its ability to co-exist with the traditional and elitist values. But, controversially, he also argues that some of their predictions and observations have been confirmed by history.

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