Contributor
Cahn, Steven M. editor.
ImprintLanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]
Descriptionxvi, 449 pages ; 23 cm
Note:Introduction / by Robert B. Talisse -- Part I. CLASSIC SOURCES -- Funeral Oration / Pericles -- Crito / Plato -- The Republic / Plato -- Politics / Aristotle -- The Works of Mencius / Mencius -- The Discourses / Niccolò Machiavelli -- Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes -- Theologico-Political Treatise / Baruch Spinoza -- Second Treatise of Government / John Locke -- Letter Concerning Toleration / John Locke -- Of the Social Contract / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Speech to the Electors of Bristol / Edmund Burke -- The Declaration of Independence -- The Constitution of the United States -- The Federalist Papers #10, #51, and #70 / Alexander Hamilton and James Madison -- The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen -- Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 / Karl Marx -- What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass -- Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln -- Second Inaugural Address / Abraham Lincoln -- On Liberty / John Stuart Mill -- Considerations on Representative Government / John Stuart Mill -- The Solitude of Self / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Of the Ruling of Men / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Democracy / John Dewey -- The Idea of Public Reason Revisited / John Rawls -- Part II. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES -- A. JUSTIFICATION -- Democracy Is Not Intrinsically Just / Richard J. Arneson -- Democracy: Instrumental vs. Non-Instrumental Value / Elizabeth Anderson -- B. DELIBERATION -- Toward a Deliberative Model of Democratic Legitimacy / Seyla Benhabib -- The Epistemic Dimension of Democratic Authority / David Estlund -- C. VOTING -- Polluting the Polls: When Citizens Should Not Vote / Jason Brennan -- Being a Good Samaritan Requires You to Vote / Julia Maskivker -- D. CHALLENGES -- Activist Challenges to Deliberative Democracy / Iris Marion Young -- Polarization and Democratic Citizenship / Robert B. Talisse.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"This timely anthology gathers forty historical and contemporary treatments of democracy. Short introductions precede each reading and a general introduction increase student comprehension across the spectrum of readings. The volume is ideal for both the undergraduate and graduate students in political theory and philosophy courses."-- Provided by publisher.
