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Ancient and modern democracy : two concepts of liberty? /
"Ancient and Modern Democracy is a comprehensive account of Athenian democracy as a subject of criticism, admiration and scholarly debate for 2,500 years, covering the features of Athenian democracy, its importance for the English, American and French revolutions and for the debates on democrac...
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New York:
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. The history and structure of Athenian democracy; 2. The reception of ancient constitutional theory; 3. Ancient democracy and social backwardness; 4. The American founding fathers and their emancipation from the ancient model; 5. The French Revolution and antiquity; 6. Terror and the 'cult of antiquity' in post-revolutionary discourse; 7. 'Ancient and modern liberty' - from Benjamin Constant to Max Weber; 8. German nineteenth-century ambivalence regarding Athenian democracy; 9. The 'rehabilitation' of Athenian democracy; 10. Models of democracy and constitutional policy in the nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries; 11. Democracy, fuhrer and Volksgemeinschaft; 12. Between totalitarianism and the constitutional state; 13. Conclusion: is Athens still a standard?.