Democracy
Subtitle: a history of ideas
By: Boris DeWiel.
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Vancouver, B.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Democracy -- History.; Démocratie -- Histoire.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-197) and index.
Table of contents: value: Democracy and value pluralism; value: What is the people? : a conceptual history of civil society; value: From ancient virtues to modern values : positive liberty and the creative will; value: The teleology of modern time : negative liberty and human nature; value: Splitting the individual : the subatomic values of liberalism; value: Conservatism and the temporal order; value: Socialism and the power of social unity; value: Democracy as a pattern of disagreement.