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Author : Oszkár Jászi
Release : 1957
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Against the Tyrant by : Oszkár Jászi
Download or read book Against the Tyrant written by Oszkár Jászi. This book was released on 1957. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Release : 2018-05-08
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 767/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by : Stephen Greenblatt
Download or read book Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics written by Stephen Greenblatt. This book was released on 2018-05-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable."—Philip Roth World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers. Examining the psyche—and psychoses—of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the disasters visited upon the societies over which these characters rule. Tyrant shows that Shakespeare’s work remains vitally relevant today, not least in its probing of the unquenchable, narcissistic appetites of demagogues and the self-destructive willingness of collaborators who indulge them.
Author : Cinzia Arruzza
Release : 2018-09-26
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 860/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Wolf in the City by : Cinzia Arruzza
Download or read book A Wolf in the City written by Cinzia Arruzza. This book was released on 2018-09-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of tyranny preoccupied Plato, and its discussion both begins and ends his famous Republic. Though philosophers have mined the Republic for millennia, Cinzia Arruzza is the first to devote a full book to the study of tyranny and of the tyrant's soul in Plato's Republic. In A Wolf in the City, Arruzza argues that Plato's critique of tyranny intervenes in an ancient debate concerning the sources of the crisis of Athenian democracy and the relation between political leaders and demos in the last decades of the fifth century BCE. Arruzza shows that Plato's critique of tyranny should not be taken as veiled criticism of the Syracusan tyrannical regime, but rather of Athenian democracy. In parsing Plato's discussion of the soul of the tyrant, Arruzza will also offer new and innovative insights into his moral psychology, addressing much-debated problems such as the nature of eros and of the spirited part of the soul, the unity or disunity of the soul, and the relation between the non-rational parts of the soul and reason.
Author : Terry Jones
Release : 2018-02-08
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 634/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Tyrant and the Squire by : Terry Jones
Download or read book The Tyrant and the Squire written by Terry Jones. This book was released on 2018-02-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the Crusades, Tom has run away from home to discover what the noble life of a knight is really like. But now that his dreams have come true and he has been knighted, all is not as rosy as he'd hoped. Terry Jones is known for his work with Monty Python, his stories for children (which won him the Children's Book Award) and his medieval books. In The Tyrant and the Squire he uses his inimitable comic imagination and originality to combine all three of these elements and create a perfect story for children and grown-ups alike. The Tyrant and the Squire is a glorious adventure from one of the UK's beloved comic performers.
Author : Daniel Chirot
Release : 1996-05-05
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 777/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Modern Tyrants by : Daniel Chirot
Download or read book Modern Tyrants written by Daniel Chirot. This book was released on 1996-05-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with its much vaunted progress in scientific and economic realms, the twentieth century has witnessed the rise of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in the history of humankind. Even with the collapse of Marxism, current instances of "ethnic cleansing" remind us that tyranny persists in our own age and shows no sign of abating. Daniel Chirot offers an important and timely study of modern tyrants, both revealing the forces that allow them to come to power and helping us to predict where they may arise in the future.
