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Tyranny

Name: Tyranny
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 01260901
Price: 115.39 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Waller R Newell
ISBN: 9781107010321

Waller R Newell

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English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 01260901

Publishers Cambridge University Press, May 2013

This is the first comprehensive exploration of ancient and modern tyranny in the history of politica... Full description

Libristo code: 01260901

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This is the first comprehensive exploration of ancient and modern tyranny in the history of political thought. Waller R. Newell argues that modern tyranny and statecraft differ fundamentally from the classical understanding. Newell demonstrates a historical shift in emphasis from the classical thinkers' stress on the virtuous character of rulers and the need for civic education to the modern emphasis on impersonal institutions and cold-blooded political method. By diagnosing the varieties of tyranny from erotic voluptuaries like Nero, the steely determination of reforming conquerors like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar and modernizing despots such as Napoleon and Ataturk to the collectivist revolutions of the Jacobins, Bolsheviks, Nazis and Khmer Rouge, Newell shows how tyranny is every bit as dangerous to free democratic societies today as it was in the past.