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Theories of tyranny, from Plato to Arendt
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Theories of tyranny, from Plato to Arendt

Author: Roger Boesche
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1996.
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Boesche, Roger.
Theories of tyranny, from Plato to Arendt.
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1996
(OCoLC)604967676
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Roger Boesche
ISBN: 0271014571 9780271014579 027101458X 9780271014586
OCLC Number: 31607121
Description: x, 494 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Plato: the political psychology of tyranny --
Aristotle: tyranny as unnatural --
Tacitus: tyranny as a politics of pretense --
Machiavelli: defeating princely tyrannies --
Montesquieu's two theories of despotism: fearing monarchs and merchants --
Tocqueville: the pleasures of servitude --
Marx: despotism of class and workplace --
Freud: the reproduction of tyranny --
Weber: the inevitability of bureaucratic domination --
Fromm, Neumann, and Arendt: three early interpretations of Nazi Germany.
Responsibility: Roger Boesche.

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