Against the masses (Varieties of anti-democratic thought since the French Revolution)
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
España peninsular
- Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780198280637
- ISBN10 0198280637
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 179
- Año de Edición 2001
- Encuadernación Tela
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Filosofía Politica Y Del DerechoAgainst the masses (Varieties of anti-democratic thought since the French Revolution)
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
The author attempts to combat collective amnesia by systematically exploring and evaluating anti-democratic thought since the French Revolution. 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 traditional and elitist values. But, controversially, he also argues that some of their predictions and observations have been confirmed by history.