Democracy and Progress
Author: David McCord Wright
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Published: 1948
Total Pages: 248
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Author: David McCord Wright
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Published: 1948
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nahum Capen
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Published: 1874
Total Pages: 720
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Larry Jay Diamond
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9780801862731
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The country-specific chapters serve to underline the differences between African democracy and liberal democracy, yet some authors are at pains to emphasize that whatever their limitations, African democracies are an advance over what had gone before." -- African Studies Review
Author: Dumas
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Published: 1841
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher Meckstroth
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0190213922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevolutionaries, counter-revolutionaries, and reformers the world over appeal to democracy to justify their actions. But when political factions compete over the right to act in "the people's" name, who is to decide? Although the problem is as old as the great revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, events from the Arab Spring to secession referendums suggest that today it is hardly any closer to being solved. This book defends a new theory of democratic legitimacy and change that provides an answer. Christopher Meckstroth shows why familiar views that identify democracy with timeless principles or institutions fall into paradox when asked to make sense of democratic founding and change. Solving the problem, he argues, requires shifting focus to the historical conditions under which citizens work out what it will mean to govern themselves in a democratic way. The only way of sorting out disputes without faith in progress is to show, in Socratic fashion, that some parties' claims to speak for "the people" cannot hold up even on their own terms. Meckstroth builds his argument on provocative and closely-argued interpretations of Plato, Kant, and Hegel, suggesting that familiar views of them as foundationalist metaphysicians misunderstand their debt to a method of radical doubt pioneered by Socrates. Recovering this tradition of antifoundational argument requires rethinking the place of German idealism in the history of political thought and opens new directions for contemporary democratic theory. The historical and Socratic theory of democracy the book defends makes possible an entirely new way of approaching struggles over contested notions of progress, popular sovereignty, political judgment and democratic change.
Author: Nahum CAPEN
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Published: 1874
Total Pages: 714
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Lothrop Motley
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Herbert David Croly
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-11-20
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLe Viandier (often called Le Viandier de Taillevent) is a recipe book generally attributed to Guillaume Tirel, alias Taillevent. It is known, the earliest version of the work was written around 1300, before the alleged author, Tyrel's was born. Le Viandier is one of the earliest recipe collections of the Middle Ages, along with the Latin Liber de Coquina (early 14th century) and the English Forme of Cury (c. 1390). It is also famous as a book that contains the first detailed description of an entremet.
Author: Gregory Laski
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0190642793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMachine generated contents note: -- Table of Contents: -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Democracy's Progress -- Chapter One: On the Possibility of Democracy in the Present-Past: Reading Thomas Jefferson and W.E.B. Du Bois in the Times of Slavery and Freedom -- Chapter Two: Narrating the Present-Past in Frederick Douglass's Life and Times -- Chapter Three: Making Reparation; or, How to Count the Wrongs of Slavery -- Chapter Four: Failed Futures: Of Prophecy and Pessimism at the Nadir -- Chapter Five: Pauline E. Hopkins's Untimely Democracy (Stasis, Agitation, Agency) -- Epilogue: Democracy's Plunges
Author: Alexandre Dumas
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Published: 1841
Total Pages: 388
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