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TRUMP AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY KARTONIERT (TB)

This book aims to recover from ancient and modern thinkers valuable arguments about
statesmanship  leadership  and tyranny which illuminate reassessments of political science and
practice after the election of Donald Trump. Like almost everyone else  contemporary political
scientists were blind-sided by the rise of Trump. No one expected a candidate to win who
repeatedly violated both political norms and the conventional wisdom about campaign best
practices. Yet many of the puzzles that Trump's rise presents have been examined by the great
political philosophers of the past. For example  it would come as no surprise to Plato that by
its very emphasis on popularity  democracy creates the potential for tyranny via demagoguery.
And  perhaps no problem is more alien to empirical political science than asking if
statesmanship entails virtue or if so  in what that virtue consists: This is a theme treated by
Plato  Aristotle  and Machiavelli  among others. Covering a range of thinkers such as Confucius
Plutarch  Kant  Tocqueville  and Deleuze  the essays in this book then seek to place the rise
of Trump and the nature of his political authority within a broader institutional context than
is possible for mainstream political science.

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