Confronting tyranny
Subtitle: ancient lessons for global politics
By: edited by Toivo Koivukoski and David E. Tabachnick.
Contributors: Koivukoski, Toivo.; Tabachnick, David.
Publisher: Rowan & Littlefield; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Despotism.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Why talk about tyranny today? / Catherine Zuckert; title: Tyranny, ancient and modern / Mark Blitz; title: Tyranny bound / David Tabachnick; title: An omission from ancient and early modern theories of tyranny : genocidal tyrannies / Roger Boesche; title: Failures of autonomy : a Hegelian diagnosis of modern tyranny / Douglas Moggach; title: What is "tyranny"? : considering the contested discourse of domination in the twenty-first century / Simon Tormey; title: Postcolonial African and Middle Eastern tyrannies : combing the worst of the classical and modern traditions / Daniel Chirot; title: Tyranny and tragedy in Nietzsche : from the ancient to the modern / Tracy B. Strong; title: Tyranny from Plato to Locke / Nathan Tarcov; title: Is there an ontology of tyranny? / Waller R. Newell; title: Tyranny and the womanish soul / Leah Bradshaw; title: The soul of the tyrant, and the souls of you and me : Plato's understanding of tyranny / Ronald Beiner; title: The education of a tyrant / Toivo Koivukoski; title: The folly of the wise? / Thomas Smith; title: In the shadow of the fortress / Barry Strauss; title: The new age of tyranny / Mark Lilla.