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Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration
Among the most influential writings in the history of Western political thought, John Locke'sTwo Treatises of GovernmentandA Letter Concerning Tolerationremain vital to political debates today, more than three centuries after they were written. The complete texts appear in this volume, accompanied by interpretive essays by three prominent Locke scholars.Ian Shapiro's introduction places Locke's political writings in historical and biographical context. John Dunn explores both the intellectual context in which Locke wrote theTwo Treatises of GovernmentandA Letter Concerning Tolerationand the major interpretive controversies surrounding their meaning. Ruth Grant offers a comprehensive discussion of Locke's views on women and the family, and Shapiro contributes an essay on the democratic elements of Locke's political theory. Taken together, the texts and essays in this volume offer invaluable insights into the history of ideas and the enduring influence of Locke's political thought.
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Setting the people free : the story of democracy
\"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.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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قصة الديمقراطية
يحكي هذا الكتاب قصة مدهشة، إنها قصة كلمة أصولها عرضية وخلفها تاريخ طويل وشائن في أحيان كثيرة، ثم صارت تهيمن مؤخرا على مخيلة العالم السياسية، ولسوف أحاول أن أظهر على إمتداد هذا الكتاب مقدار ضآلة فهمنا، حتى الآن، لهذا الصعود المذهل، بل وكيف يمكننا التعلم لكي نحيط بأسبابها ودلالتها معا على نحو أفضل. فما الذي يجعل الديمقراطية تطل اليوم هذه الإطلالة الواسعة؟ وما الذي يجعلها تملك هذه الغلبة على الخطاب السياسي في العالم الحديث؟
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