The Pursuit of Equality in the West / / Aldo Schiavone.

One of the world’s foremost historians of Western political and legal thought proposes a bold new model for thinking about equality at a time when its absence threatens democracies everywhere. How much equality does democracy need to survive? Political thinkers have wrestled with that question for m...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • PROLOGUE The Most Beautiful of Lives
  • 1 THE GREEK ALTERNATIVE Nature or Politics?
  • 2 THE ROMAN IMPRINT Legal Machine and Theological Constructions
  • 3 THE EQUALITY OF THE MODERNS Labor, Individuals, and Classes in the Age of Capital
  • 4 NEVER SO EQUAL, NEVER SO DIFFERENT The Twentieth Century in Four Acts
  • 5 THE NEW EQUALITY Figures of the Human in the Age of Technology
  • NOTES
  • INDEX OF NAMES