Democratic Despotisms:

Is it possible to speak of democratic despotisms, to attribute the adjective ""democratic"", in the plural, to despotism? Can there be several types of despotism, simultaneously, in a democratic horizon? This book is born form the intuition that the answer to this question is pos...

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Main Author: Costa, Marta Nunes da (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle-upon-Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2022
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Online Access:DE-188
Summary:Is it possible to speak of democratic despotisms, to attribute the adjective ""democratic"", in the plural, to despotism? Can there be several types of despotism, simultaneously, in a democratic horizon? This book is born form the intuition that the answer to this question is positive; however, like any work that requires the activity of thinking, the initial hypothesis had to be tested. Through a dialogue with Alexis de Tocqueville, Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault, this book reconstructs some of their political concepts in order to create a broad theoretical horizon in which w
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 183 Seiten)
ISBN:1527589390
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