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Setting the People Free John Dunn

Setting the People Free By John Dunn

Setting the People Free by John Dunn


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Summary

At a time when countries go to war in the name of 'democracy', Setting the People Free shows how that word has come to dominate political discussion around the world.

Setting the People Free Summary

Setting the People Free: The Story of Democracy by John Dunn

Why does democracy, as a word and as an idea, loom so large in the political imagination today? It holds sway over the political rhetoric of the modern world and has come to define a system of government that marks a huge moral and political advance from any structure before it. Democracy has become the political core of the civilisation that the West offers to the rest of the world. Setting the People Free traces the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for the local Greek difficulty two-and-a-half thousand years ago, through its near extinction, to its rebirth amid the struggles of the French Revolution. John Dunn charts its slow but insistent metamorphosis over the next one hundred and fifty years, and its overwhelming triumph since 1945. He examines the differences and the extraordinary continuities that modern democratic states share with their Greek antecedents and explains why democracy evokes intellectual and moral scorn for some, and vital allegiance from others. Setting the People Free is a unique and brilliant account of this extraordinary idea and it's evolution.

Setting the People Free Reviews

Rich and subtle... A masterly performance... Lucidly and provocatively written... Next time you hear the word democracy, reach for this book. If you want to think harder about democracy's shortcomings and challenges, it is an excellent place to start. * The Economist *
A signal, beautifully written book... It is also a joy to read. The truth can entertain as well as make us free. -- Roy Hattersley * The Times *
Exhilarating, gripping and full of mordant phrases... Magnificent. -- David Marquand * New Statesman *
Remarkable.... written in a spare, incisive English style which at its best is worthy of Hobbes -- Jonathan Sumption * Spectator *

About John Dunn

John Dunn is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of King's College. He is the author of a number of titles, among them The Cunning of Unreason: Making Sense of Politics, The Political Thought of John Locke. He is also the editor of Democracy: The Unfinished Journey and a fellow of the British Academy.

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GOR002157637
9781843542131
1843542137
Setting the People Free: The Story of Democracy by John Dunn
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Atlantic Books
20060209
256
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