Setting the People Free : : The Story of Democracy, Second Edition / / John Dunn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English
• VerfasserIn: Dunn, John,
• TeilnehmendeR: Dunn, John.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface and Acknowledgements to the Second Edition --; Acknowledgements for the Original Edition --; Preface: Why Democracy? --; 1. Democracy’s First Coming --; 2. Democracy’s Second Coming --; 3. The Long Shadow of Thermidor --; 4. Why Democracy? --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691183916; 9783110604252; 9783110603255; 9783110604214; 9783110603217; 9783110663365
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691183916?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John Dunn.

Why does democracy—as a word and as an idea—loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for a local Greek difficulty 2,500 years ago, through its near extinction, to its rebirth amid the struggles of the French Revolution. Celebrated political theorist John Dunn then charts the slow but insistent metamorphosis of democracy over the next 150 years and its apparently 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. Now with a new preface and conclusion that ground this landmark work firmly in the present, Setting the People Free is a unique and brilliant account of an extraordinary idea.