Screen LibraryThe idea of democracy in the modern era
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University Press of Kansas,
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| Publisher Address: | Lawrence, Kan. |
| Publication Dates: | c2004. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 302 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
070061334X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780700613342 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | D082 |
| CLC: | D082 |
| Call Number: | D082/K431 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-287) and index. Prospects for government in 1989 -- Aristotelian and Confucian insights -- Tensions of Citizenship: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- The first era of modern thought, ca. 1600-1750 -- The United States and first modernity democracy -- The second modernity: from Bethan to Dewey -- Liberal democracy in the twentieth century -- Second modernity thought in Japan and China -- An Asian third modernity -- Postmodernism and a fourth modernity democracy -- Comparing rationales for democracy -- The idea of democracy in the third millennium. |