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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
John Dunn |
ISBN: | 9780300179910 030017991X |
OCLC Number: | 1146443607 |
Description: | XII, 192 p. ; 22 cm. |
Responsibility: | John Dunn. |
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"Intellectually bracing . . . Dunn-who has been for decades one of the most articulate critics in the face of democratic triumphalism-now seeks to clear a path out of the maze of our ill-founded aspirations and confusions. In Breaking Democracy's Spell, he has concentrated on how, despite all appearances, we have never really known what democratic rule is in the first place."-Thomas Meaney, Nation -- Thomas Meaney * Nation * "Of the many excellent philosophers of democracy working today, John Dunn of Cambridge University is the one best attuned to its paradoxes." -Christopher Caldwell, Financial Times -- Christopher Caldwell * Fiancial Times * Read more...

