Trump and political philosophy : leadership, statesmanship, and tyranny /
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 blindsided...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Leadership, statesmanship and tyranny : the character and rhetoric of Trump / Angel Jaramillo Torres and Marc Benjamin Sable
- Truth, Trump, tyranny : Plato and the Sophists in an era of 'Alternative Facts' / Patrick Lee Miller
- Portraits of ignobility : the political thought of xenophon, and Donald Trump / Ashok Karra
- Demagogy and the decline of Middle-Class Republicanism : Aristotle on the Trump phenomenon
- Democracy, demagogues, and political wisdom : understanding Trump in the wake of Thucydides' History / Bernard J. Dobski
- The strongman, the small man, and the gentleman : Confucius and Donald Trump / George A. Dunn
- Trump, Alfarabi, and the open society / Christopher Colmo
- Machiavellian politics, modern management and the rise of Donald Trump / Gladden J. Pappin
- Donald Trump : Shakespeare's lord of misrule / Yu Jin Ko
- Knave, patriot, or factionist : three Rousseauian hypotheses about the election of President Trump / Joseph Reisert
- Trump and The Federalist on national greatness in a commercial republic / Arthur Milikh
- American constitutionalism from Hamilton to Lincoln to Trump / Murray Dry
- The lesson of Lincoln in the age of Trump / John Burt
- The great emancipators oppose the "Slave Power" : The Lincolnian-and Aristotelian-dimensions of Trump's Rhetoric / Kenneth Masugi
- Charisma, value and political vocation : Max Weber on the 2016 US election / Marc Benjamin Sable
- The common sense of Donald J. Trump : a gramscian reading of Twenty-First Century populist rhetoric / Kate Crehan
- "I alone can solve" : Carl Schmitt on sovereignty and nationhood under Trump / Feisal G. Mohamed.