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Theories of tyranny, from Plato to Arendt

Title
Theories of tyranny, from Plato to Arendt / Roger Boesche.
Author
Boesche, Roger.
Publication
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1996.

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x, 494 p.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 96-1959
ISBN
  • 0271014571 (acid-free paper)
  • 027101458X (pbk.)
LCCN
94042591
OCLC
31607121
Author
Boesche, Roger.
Title
Theories of tyranny, from Plato to Arendt / Roger Boesche.
Imprint
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1996.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 96-1959
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