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Tzvetan Todorov - The Inner Enemies of Democracy - 9780745685748 - V9780745685748
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The Inner Enemies of Democracy

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Description for The Inner Enemies of Democracy Hardcover. The political history of the twentieth century can be viewed as the history of democracy s struggle against its external enemies: fascism and communism. This struggle ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet regime. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 392.

The political history of the twentieth century can be viewed as the history of democracy’s struggle against its external enemies: fascism and communism. This struggle ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet regime. Some people think that democracy now faces new enemies: Islamic fundamentalism, religious extremism and international terrorism and that this is the struggle that will define our times. Todorov disagrees: the biggest threat to democracy today is democracy itself. Its enemies are within: what the ancient Greeks called 'hubris'.

Todorov argues that certain democratic values have been distorted and pushed to an ... Read more

Drawing on recent history as well as his own experience of growing up in a totalitarian regime, Todorov returns to examples borrowed from the Western canon: from a dispute between Augustine and Pelagius to the fierce debates among Enlightenment thinkers to explore the origin of these perversions of democracy. He argues compellingly that the real democratic ideal is to be found in the delicate, ever-changing balance between competing principles, popular sovereignty, freedom and progress. When one of these elements breaks free and turns into an over-riding principle, it becomes dangerous: populism, ultra-liberalism and messianism, the inner enemies of democracy.

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Product Details

Publisher
Polity
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
392g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745685748
SKU
V9780745685748
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About Tzvetan Todorov
Tzvetan Todorov is Director of Research at the CNRS in Paris.

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One of the great intellectuals of our time. Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard University This is a voice to be listened to attentively, for our shared planetary home's and all its residents' sake. Zygmunt Bauman, University of Leeds Now, of all times, there is a need for cool ... Read more

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