Democracy's dangers and discontents : the tyranny of the majority from the Greeks to Obama / / Bruce S. Thornton |
Autore | Thornton Bruce S. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, California : , : Hoover Institution Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Disciplina | 321.809049 |
Collana | Hoover Institution press publication Democracy's dangers & discontents |
Soggetto topico |
Democracy - 20th century
Democracy - 21st century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8179-1798-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Triumph of Democracy and the Antidemocratic Tradition; 1 The Monitory Failures of Athenian Democracy; 2 The Antidemocratic Tradition and the American Founding; 3 Democracy and Leviathan; Conclusion: Restoring Limited Government; Bibliography; About the Author; About the Hoover Institution's Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464692903321 |
Thornton Bruce S. | ||
Stanford, California : , : Hoover Institution Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Democracy's dangers and discontents : the tyranny of the majority from the Greeks to Obama / / Bruce S. Thornton |
Autore | Thornton Bruce S. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, California : , : Hoover Institution Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Disciplina | 321.809049 |
Collana | Hoover Institution press publication Democracy's dangers & discontents |
Soggetto topico |
Democracy - 20th century
Democracy - 21st century |
ISBN | 0-8179-1798-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Triumph of Democracy and the Antidemocratic Tradition; 1 The Monitory Failures of Athenian Democracy; 2 The Antidemocratic Tradition and the American Founding; 3 Democracy and Leviathan; Conclusion: Restoring Limited Government; Bibliography; About the Author; About the Hoover Institution's Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786647403321 |
Thornton Bruce S. | ||
Stanford, California : , : Hoover Institution Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Democracy's dangers and discontents : the tyranny of the majority from the Greeks to Obama / / Bruce S. Thornton |
Autore | Thornton Bruce S. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, California : , : Hoover Institution Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Disciplina | 321.809049 |
Collana | Hoover Institution press publication Democracy's dangers & discontents |
Soggetto topico |
Democracy - 20th century
Democracy - 21st century |
ISBN | 0-8179-1798-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Triumph of Democracy and the Antidemocratic Tradition; 1 The Monitory Failures of Athenian Democracy; 2 The Antidemocratic Tradition and the American Founding; 3 Democracy and Leviathan; Conclusion: Restoring Limited Government; Bibliography; About the Author; About the Hoover Institution's Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820096103321 |
Thornton Bruce S. | ||
Stanford, California : , : Hoover Institution Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Plagues of the mind : the new epidemic of false knowledge / / Bruce S. Thornton |
Autore | Thornton Bruce S. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wilmington, Delaware : , : ISI Books, , [1999] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
Disciplina | 149.7 |
Soggetto topico |
Truthfulness and falsehood
Error |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4976-4893-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover Page; Title Page; Contents; PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: Of the Causes of Error; CHAPTER 1: Knowledge is Virtue; CHAPTER 2: "Feeling is All"; CHAPTER 3: Discontented with Civilization; CHAPTER 4: Tragedy and Therapy; PART II: Of Three Popular and Received Ideas; CHAPTER 5: Romantic Environmentalism; CHAPTER 6: The White Man's Golden Age Red Man; CHAPTER 7: The False Goddess and Her Lost Paradise; CONCLUSION The Examined Life; NOTES; INDEX; Copyright Page |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910478903303321 |
Thornton Bruce S. | ||
Wilmington, Delaware : , : ISI Books, , [1999] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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