{"product_id":"democratic-moments-reading-democratic-texts-9781350006164","title":"Democratic Moments: Reading Democratic Texts","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Xavier Maarquez\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Democracy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection of short essays on texts in the history of democracy shows the diversity of ideas that contributed to the making of our present democratic moment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The selection of texts goes beyond the standard, Western-centric canonical history of democracy, with its beginnings in ancient Athens and its climax in the French and American revolutions, recovering some of the significant body of democratic and anti-democratic thought in Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere. It includes discussions of well-known philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, but also of a variety of thinkers much less well known in English as writers on democracy: Al Farabi, Bolívar, Gandhi, Radishchev, Lenin, Sun Yat-sen, and many others. The essays thus de-center our understanding of the moments where the idea of democracy was articulated, rejected, and appropriated. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Spanning antiquity to the present and global in scope, with contributions by key scholars of democracy from around the world, \u003ci\u003eDemocratic Moments\u003c\/i\u003e is the ideal text for all students wishing to expand their understanding of the ways in which this contested concept has been understood.","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45083238400151,"sku":"9781350006164","price":12064.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781350006164.webp?v=1767098683","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/democratic-moments-reading-democratic-texts-9781350006164","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}