Theories of Tyranny: From Plato to Arendt

by Roger Boesche

Book Overview

This book explores a little-noticed tradition in the history of European political thought. From Plato to Aristotle to Tacitus and Machiavelli, and from Tocqueville to Max Weber and Hannah Arendt, political thinkers have examined the tyrannies of their times and have wondered how these tyrannies come about, how they work, and how they might be defeated. In examining this perennial problem of tyranny, Roger Boesche looks at how these thinkers borrowed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027101458X
• ISBN13: 9780271014586
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"