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'"Political Scandal, Public Outrage, Celebrity Activism - as the current storm rages around Westminster, David Aaronvitch welcomes a book that explains how we got here and what the future may hold"
This is the first such history to be attempted in more than a century, and we can only be grateful that it was Keane - an Australian-born academic and author, and the biographer of Tom Paine - who has filled the growing gap... The width and depth of Keane's erudition are stunning... A magnificent work'
David Aaronvitch, The Times 30/5
'A bracing intellectual exercise, Keane's book is highly impressive... an awesome scholarly feat'
Sunday Times 8/6
'Though it is often difficult to know what democracy really means, it has never been hard to say where it started, or when: it all began in Athens about 2,500 years ago. Right? Wrong, according to John Keane, who thinks that our taste for these sorts of founding myths is a large part of why we are so confused about what democracy is and how it works. We want the story to be neat as well as noble, and so we lose sight of all the ways in which democracy is neither of these things. Instead, as Keane shows in this monumental new history, it is often chaotic and its progress around the world has been highly contingent, with neither tidy beginnings nor happy endings. Keane's aim is, as he puts it, to "democratise" the history of democracy, opening it up to all the unheralded sources and unlikely experiences that have shaped its fate and ours... This is a remarkable book, nearly 1,000 pages long and with something to be learnt from almost every one of them'
Observer 8/60
'A magnificent work putting into context modern-day sifts in democracy and the threats posed to its fragile existence'
The Books We've Loved in the past few Weeks, The Times 7/8
'Politicians Must Hand Back Power to the People - As we vote in the Euro elections, a professor of politics argues for a fundamental shift in our view of democracy'
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23703594-details/Politicians+must+hand+back+power+to+the+people/article.do
Comment piece by author, Evening Standard 4/6
'Impressive... Keane sets out, as he says, to democratise our understanding of democracy by jolting us out of complacent thinking. The majority of the book concentrates on the unfamiliar rather than the more conventional histories of Westminster or Washington. Keane experiments with a number of voices, from the polemical to the analytical, and from ironic detachment to involved, lyrical narratives. There are jokes, and in one chapter he takes the guise of a future female historian writing of the twenty-first century. His aim is to carry the reader through a long and sometimes complex history, and I think he succeeds'
Ben Wilson, Literary Review June issue
'A gargantuan feat of erudition'
John Kampfner, Guardian 20/6
'Keane successfully expands our sense of democracy's origins, deftly traces its global reach, and rightly insists on the contingent, historical character of democracy, its emergence and evolution through unintended moves that have enabled its continual reinvention'
FT, 20/6
'[Keane's] study's broad sweep, wealth of detailed knowledge, shrewd insights and fluent, lively prose make it a must-read for scholars and citizens alike'
Publisher's Weekly
‘History students will no doubt benefit from this book’s wealth of detail on the evolution of democracy’
Sunday Business Post 21/6
‘Sure, it’s the size and weight of a house brick, it might be the only book you take to Greece or Italy and you almost certainly won’t finish it while you’re there, but John Keane’s The Life and Death of Democracy is, for me, the publishing event of the summer. While others waste time on the beach, look cool in the taverna, reaching between the striking black and white covers to find out where democracy came from, the weird ways in which it sometimes developed, and where it might be headed, all told with boisterous enthusiasm and a great ear for anecdote’
Summer Reading, The Times 27/6
'A gargantuan feat of erudition'
John Kampfner, Guardian 20/6
'Keane successfully expands our sense of democracy's origins, deftly traces its global reach, and rightly insists on the contingent, historical character of democracy, its emergence and evolution through unintended moves that have enabled its continual reinvention'
FT, 20/6
'[Keane's] study's broad sweep, wealth of detailed knowledge, shrewd insights and fluent, lively prose make it a must-read for scholars and citizens alike'
Publisher's Weekly
‘History students will no doubt benefit from this book’s wealth of detail on the evolution of democracy’
Sunday Business Post 21/6
‘Sure, it’s the size and weight of a house brick, it might be the only book you take to Greece or Italy and you almost certainly won’t finish it while you’re there, but John Keane’s The Life and Death of Democracy is, for me, the publishing event of the summer. While others waste time on the beach, look cool in the taverna, reaching between the striking black and white covers to find out where democracy came from, the weird ways in which it sometimes developed, and where it might be headed, all told with boisterous enthusiasm and a great ear for anecdote’
Summer Reading, The Times 27/6
‘This is a remarkable book, 1,000 pages long and with something to be learnt from almost every one.’
The Observer 2/5
‘In this comprehensive history, Keane looks at how democracy was born, its many incarnations and how it may perish.’
The Times 15/5
Biographie de l'auteur :
This is the first such history to be attempted in more than a century, and we can only be grateful that it was Keane - an Australian-born academic and author, and the biographer of Tom Paine - who has filled the growing gap... The width and depth of Keane's erudition are stunning... A magnificent work'
David Aaronvitch, The Times 30/5
'A bracing intellectual exercise, Keane's book is highly impressive... an awesome scholarly feat'
Sunday Times 8/6
'Though it is often difficult to know what democracy really means, it has never been hard to say where it started, or when: it all began in Athens about 2,500 years ago. Right? Wrong, according to John Keane, who thinks that our taste for these sorts of founding myths is a large part of why we are so confused about what democracy is and how it works. We want the story to be neat as well as noble, and so we lose sight of all the ways in which democracy is neither of these things. Instead, as Keane shows in this monumental new history, it is often chaotic and its progress around the world has been highly contingent, with neither tidy beginnings nor happy endings. Keane's aim is, as he puts it, to "democratise" the history of democracy, opening it up to all the unheralded sources and unlikely experiences that have shaped its fate and ours... This is a remarkable book, nearly 1,000 pages long and with something to be learnt from almost every one of them'
Observer 8/60
'A magnificent work putting into context modern-day sifts in democracy and the threats posed to its fragile existence'
The Books We've Loved in the past few Weeks, The Times 7/8
'Politicians Must Hand Back Power to the People - As we vote in the Euro elections, a professor of politics argues for a fundamental shift in our view of democracy'
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23703594-details/Politicians+must+hand+back+power+to+the+people/article.do
Comment piece by author, Evening Standard 4/6
'Impressive... Keane sets out, as he says, to democratise our understanding of democracy by jolting us out of complacent thinking. The majority of the book concentrates on the unfamiliar rather than the more conventional histories of Westminster or Washington. Keane experiments with a number of voices, from the polemical to the analytical, and from ironic detachment to involved, lyrical narratives. There are jokes, and in one chapter he takes the guise of a future female historian writing of the twenty-first century. His aim is to carry the reader through a long and sometimes complex history, and I think he succeeds'
Ben Wilson, Literary Review June issue
'A gargantuan feat of erudition'
John Kampfner, Guardian 20/6
'Keane successfully expands our sense of democracy's origins, deftly traces its global reach, and rightly insists on the contingent, historical character of democracy, its emergence and evolution through unintended moves that have enabled its continual reinvention'
FT, 20/6
'[Keane's] study's broad sweep, wealth of detailed knowledge, shrewd insights and fluent, lively prose make it a must-read for scholars and citizens alike'
Publisher's Weekly
‘History students will no doubt benefit from this book’s wealth of detail on the evolution of democracy’
Sunday Business Post 21/6
‘Sure, it’s the size and weight of a house brick, it might be the only book you take to Greece or Italy and you almost certainly won’t finish it while you’re there, but John Keane’s The Life and Death of Democracy is, for me, the publishing event of the summer. While others waste time on the beach, look cool in the taverna, reaching between the striking black and white covers to find out where democracy came from, the weird ways in which it sometimes developed, and where it might be headed, all told with boisterous enthusiasm and a great ear for anecdote’
Summer Reading, The Times 27/6
'A gargantuan feat of erudition'
John Kampfner, Guardian 20/6
'Keane successfully expands our sense of democracy's origins, deftly traces its global reach, and rightly insists on the contingent, historical character of democracy, its emergence and evolution through unintended moves that have enabled its continual reinvention'
FT, 20/6
'[Keane's] study's broad sweep, wealth of detailed knowledge, shrewd insights and fluent, lively prose make it a must-read for scholars and citizens alike'
Publisher's Weekly
‘History students will no doubt benefit from this book’s wealth of detail on the evolution of democracy’
Sunday Business Post 21/6
‘Sure, it’s the size and weight of a house brick, it might be the only book you take to Greece or Italy and you almost certainly won’t finish it while you’re there, but John Keane’s The Life and Death of Democracy is, for me, the publishing event of the summer. While others waste time on the beach, look cool in the taverna, reaching between the striking black and white covers to find out where democracy came from, the weird ways in which it sometimes developed, and where it might be headed, all told with boisterous enthusiasm and a great ear for anecdote’
Summer Reading, The Times 27/6
‘This is a remarkable book, 1,000 pages long and with something to be learnt from almost every one.’
The Observer 2/5
‘In this comprehensive history, Keane looks at how democracy was born, its many incarnations and how it may perish.’
The Times 15/5
Born in southern Australia and educated at the Universities of Adelaide, Toronto and Cambridge, John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). In 1989 he founded the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) in London.
In recent years, he has held the Karl Deutsch Professorship in Berlin, co-directed a large-scale European Commission-funded project on the future of civil society and citizenship, and served as a Fellow of the London-based think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). He recently held a Major Research Fellowship awarded by the Leverhulme Trust and is a Fellow of the Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences in Shanghai.
During his many years of residence in Britain, The Times ranked him as one of the country's leading political thinkers and writers whose work has 'world-wide importance'. The Australian Broadcasting Commission recently described him as 'one of the great intellectual exports from Australia'.
His current research interests include China and the future of global institutions; the twenty-first century enemies of democracy; fear and violence; public life, power and freedom of communication in the digital age; religion and the history of secularism; philosophies of language and history; the origins and future of representative government; and the history and politics of Islam.
He wrote the timeline for the new Museum of Australian Democracy. A consultant to the United Nations and the Evolution of Global Values project at the University of Leiden and a recent member of the American-based Institutions of Democracy Commission, he recently published The Life and Death of Democracy - the first full-scale history of democracy for over a century and the subject of considerable media and scholarly attention around the world.
In recent years, he has held the Karl Deutsch Professorship in Berlin, co-directed a large-scale European Commission-funded project on the future of civil society and citizenship, and served as a Fellow of the London-based think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). He recently held a Major Research Fellowship awarded by the Leverhulme Trust and is a Fellow of the Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences in Shanghai.
During his many years of residence in Britain, The Times ranked him as one of the country's leading political thinkers and writers whose work has 'world-wide importance'. The Australian Broadcasting Commission recently described him as 'one of the great intellectual exports from Australia'.
His current research interests include China and the future of global institutions; the twenty-first century enemies of democracy; fear and violence; public life, power and freedom of communication in the digital age; religion and the history of secularism; philosophies of language and history; the origins and future of representative government; and the history and politics of Islam.
He wrote the timeline for the new Museum of Australian Democracy. A consultant to the United Nations and the Evolution of Global Values project at the University of Leiden and a recent member of the American-based Institutions of Democracy Commission, he recently published The Life and Death of Democracy - the first full-scale history of democracy for over a century and the subject of considerable media and scholarly attention around the world.
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- ÉditeurReadHowYouWant
- Date d'édition2014
- ISBN 10 1459675916
- ISBN 13 9781459675919
- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages1854
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