دورية أكاديمية
Tirannie antiche e moderne
| العنوان: | Tirannie antiche e moderne Tyrannies, Ancient and Modern |
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| المؤلفون: | Giorgini, Giovanni |
| المصدر: | OpenAIRE. |
| بيانات النشر: | Marcial Pons. |
| وصف مادي: | 75-93 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Tyranny, Plato, Machiavelli, Tocqueville, Populism |
| الوصف: | Tyranny is a word imported into Greek vocabulary in the 7th century BCE to identify a new kind of ruler, who does not belong to a dynasty and has a great power. Tyrants started to appear in Greece in that century: sole rulers, they were the extraordinary response to a situation of civil conflict inside the poleis. In this essay I argue that there is a discrepancy between the historical actions of tyrants and the conceptualization of this regime: leaving aside the merits or demerits of the individual tyrants, tyranny came to be seen as the emblem of evil in politics. The crucial fact for this cultural operation was the emergence of democratic ideology in Athens: the tyrant became the mirror-opposite of democratic practices. I then argue that this emblem of political evil re-emerged in many epochs in the history of Western political thought and I focus on the cases of Machiavelli and Tocqueville. I conclude with a view to what kind of tyrant should contemporary democracies fear. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Article |
| اللغة: | Italian |
| تدمد: | 0394-1248 |
| Relation: | http://journals.openedition.org/tp/basictei/787; http://journals.openedition.org/tp/tei/787 |
| URL الوصول: | http://journals.openedition.org/tp/787 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsrev.EA5E91DB |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Openedition.org |
| تدمد: | 03941248 |
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