ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1972
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

MAURICE LATEY

TYRANNY - A Study in the Abuse of Power

Izdavač - Penguin Books, Harmondsworth

Godina - 1972

384 strana

18 cm

Edicija - Pelican Books

Povez - Broširan

Stanje - Kao na slici, tekst bez podvlačenja



SADRŽAJ:
Preface to the Pelican Edition
1. The Scope of the Inquiry
2. The Classification of Tyrants
3. The Conditions of Tyranny
4. The Nurture of Tyrants
5. The Preparation for Power
6. The Consolidation of Power
7. The Exercise of Power
8. The Tyrant, the Intellectuals and Ideology
9. The Tyrant and Religion
10. The Tyrant and his Fellows
11. The Tyrant, the Army and War
12. The Fall of Tyrants
13. The Tyrant and the Future
14. Remedies against Tyranny
Bibliographical Note
Index 361


`We live in an age of tyrants. Modern technology concentrates unprecedented power in the hands of the absolute ruler, including possibly (with nuclear weapons) the power of life and death over the human race.

Maurice Latey`s purpose in this book is to describe tyranny as a special type of political phenomenon and to classify the stages and the manner by which tyrants gain, exercise and lose power. He does so by comparing the Hitlers and Stalins of our own age with the tyrants of the past, right back to those of ancient Greece.

There emerge from his analysis recurrent patterns which have favoured the ambitions of tyrants: in the social, political and economic conditions of the times; in the personal psychology of the aspirants; in their methods of seizing and maintaining power.

It is Maurice Latey`s sombre conclusion that, in this second half of the twentieth century, we require the utmost firmness in our exercise of democracy and our defence of individual values if we are to avoid a harsher tyranny than man has ever before experienced the tyranny of technology, armaments and nationalism.`



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