Democracy and Dictatorship: The Nature and Limits of State PowerIn this important volume Norberto Bobbio examines some of the central themes of political theory and presents a systematic exposition of his views. With great astuteness and profound scholarship, Bobbio unfolds the elements for a general theory of politics. Bobbio's wide-ranging argument is focused on four themes: the distinction between the public and the private; the concept of civil society; differing conceptions of the state and differing ways of understanding the legitimacy of state power; and the relation between democracy and dictatorship. Bobbio's discussion draws on a wealth of theoretical and historical material, from Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes and Locke to Marx, Weber, Habermas and Foucault. By analysing the development of different languages of politics in relation to changing social and historical contexts, Bobbio deepens our understanding of the concepts we use to describe and evaluate modern political systems. |
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Հաճախորդի կարծիքը - thcson - LibraryThingThis book contains four scholarly essays. It's always a pleasure to read Bobbio and his historical analyses of political concepts certainly don't lack academic learning. But the essays are a bit too ... Read full review
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The evaluative use of the great dichotomy | 9 |
The second meaning of the dichotomy | 17 |
The Marxian interpretation | 27 |
The natural law tradition | 34 |
State Power and Government | 44 |
The name and the thing | 57 |
The state and power | 69 |
The foundation of power | 81 |
The forms of government | 100 |
Forms of state | 111 |
The end of the state | 125 |
Democracy and Dictatorship | 133 |
The historical use | 145 |
Representative democracy and direct democracy | 152 |
Ancient dictatorship | 158 |
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| Վերնագիր | Democracy and Dictatorship: The Nature and Limits of State Power |
| Հեղինակ | Norberto Bobbio |
| Հրատարակիչ | U of Minnesota Press, 1989 |
| ISBN | 0816618135, 9780816618132 |
| Length | 186 էջ |
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