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Teachers of the people : political education in Rousseau, Hegel, Tocqueville, and Mill /

The year 2016 witnessed an unprecedented shock to political elites in both Europe and America. Populism was on the march, fueled by a substantial ignorance of, or contempt for, the norms, practices, and institutions of liberal democracy. It is not surprising that observers on the left and right have...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Villa, Dana Richard (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau: creating and "preserving" a free people
  • Hegel as political educator
  • Tocqueville: the aristocrat as democratic pedagogue
  • J.S. Mill: democracy and the authority of the instructed
  • Conclusion.