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Silence and Democracy

- Athenian Politics in Thucydides’ History
Af: John G. Zumbrunnen Engelsk Paperback

Silence and Democracy

- Athenian Politics in Thucydides’ History
Af: John G. Zumbrunnen Engelsk Paperback
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The role of elites vis-à-vis the mass public in the construction and successful functioning of democracy has long been of central interest to political theorists. In Silence and Democracy, John Zumbrunnen explores this theme in Thucydides’ famous history of the Peloponnesian War as a way of focusing our thoughts about this relationship in our own modern democracy. In Periclean Athens, according to Thucydides, “what was in name a democracy became in actuality rule by the first man.” This political transformation of Athenian political life raises the question of how to interpret the silence of the demos. Zumbrunnen distinguishes the “silence of contending voices” from the “collective silence of the demos,” and finds the latter the more difficult and intriguing problem. It is in the complex interplay of silence, speech, and action that Zumbrunnen teases out the meaning of democracy for Thucydides in both its domestic and international dimensions and shows how we may benefit from the Thucydidean text in thinking about the ways in which the silence of ordinary citizens can enable the domineering machinations of political elites in America and elsewhere today.
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The role of elites vis-à-vis the mass public in the construction and successful functioning of democracy has long been of central interest to political theorists. In Silence and Democracy, John Zumbrunnen explores this theme in Thucydides’ famous history of the Peloponnesian War as a way of focusing our thoughts about this relationship in our own modern democracy. In Periclean Athens, according to Thucydides, “what was in name a democracy became in actuality rule by the first man.” This political transformation of Athenian political life raises the question of how to interpret the silence of the demos. Zumbrunnen distinguishes the “silence of contending voices” from the “collective silence of the demos,” and finds the latter the more difficult and intriguing problem. It is in the complex interplay of silence, speech, and action that Zumbrunnen teases out the meaning of democracy for Thucydides in both its domestic and international dimensions and shows how we may benefit from the Thucydidean text in thinking about the ways in which the silence of ordinary citizens can enable the domineering machinations of political elites in America and elsewhere today.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 208
ISBN-13: 9780271033587
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0271033584
Kategori: Samfunds- & politisk filosofi
Udg. Dato: 15 nov 2010
Længde: 15mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: Pennsylvania State University Press
Oplagsdato: 15 nov 2010
Forfatter(e): John G. Zumbrunnen
Forfatter(e) John G. Zumbrunnen

Kategori Samfunds- & politisk filosofi

ISBN-13 9780271033587

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 208

Udgave

Længde 15mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 229mm

Udg. Dato 15 nov 2010

Oplagsdato 15 nov 2010

Forlag Pennsylvania State University Press

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