Roman historian Tacitus wrote a damning critique of the first centry CE Roman empire, presenting emperors almost universally as tyrants surrounded by flatterers and informants and depicting a society that has lost the liberty enjoyed under the Roman Republic. Yet Tacitus also po…
Wood argues that the ""œSociety of Equality""{u009D} set a new standard for democratic thought and action in Chilean history and was arguably the most democratic political association of its era in all of Latin America.
This book presents an important new account of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Closed Commercial State, a major early nineteenth-century development of Rousseau and Kant's political thought. Isaac Nakhimovsky shows how Fichte reformulated Rousseau's constitutional politics and radicali…
