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Könyv When the Majority Is Wrong Tariq Farooq

When the Majority Is Wrong

Rousseau and the Fragile Line Between Democracy and Mob Rule

Szerző: Tariq Farooq
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: Independently published
Elérhetőség: Várható készletfeltöltés
Küldés 08. 11. 2026
3 640 Ft
Every tyrant claims to speak for the people. How do we know when the majority is wrong?In 1762, the...

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Szerző
Tariq Farooq
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2026
oldal
154
EAN
9798166818607
Enbook ID
54398022
Kiadó
Independently published
Súly
188
Méretek
140 x 216 x 9

Teljes leírás

Every tyrant claims to speak for the people. How do we know when the majority is wrong?

In 1762, the republic of Geneva burned a slim book of political theory and ordered its author arrested. Three decades later, revolutionaries in Paris were quoting that same book as they sent their fellow citizens to the guillotine in the name of the people.

The book was The Social Contract. Its author, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, gave the modern world its most powerful argument for democracy, and also the idea most often used to destroy it: the claim that someone knows what the people really want better than the people themselves.

In this lively, deeply researched book, political scientist Tariq Farooq follows Rousseau's idea of the general will from the Terror of the French Revolution to the referendums, populist leaders and online mobs of our own time, and answers the question every democracy must face: how can we tell the will of a free people from the anger of a crowd?

Inside you will discover:

  • Why Rousseau believed a majority vote can be wrong, and what modern research on juries, crowds and polarization reveals

  • How "enemies of the people" traveled from the Revolutionary Tribunal to modern headlines

  • The strongest case against Rousseau and the strongest case for him, from Constant, Berlin and Talmon to Kant and Rawls

  • What referendums, populism, social media pile-ons and the tyranny of the majority tell us about democracy today

  • Five practical signs that a majority has become a mob, and how free societies hold the line

Clear, balanced and grounded in sound scholarship, with 12 illustrations and full APA references, this is an ideal introduction to Rousseau and democratic theory for students, teachers and general readers worried about the future of democracy.

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