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HENRY DAVİD THOREAU’NUN DEMOKRASİYE İLİŞKİN DÜŞÜNCELERİ ÜZERİNE BİR DEĞERLENDİRME
AN ANALYSIS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU’S IDEAS ABOUT DEMOCRACY

Author(s): Selçuk Aydin, Şükrü Nişanci
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Government/Political systems, Evaluation research
Published by: Kafkas Üniversitesi Sağlık, Kültür ve Spor Daire Başkanlığı Dijital Baskı Merkezi
Keywords: Representative Democracy; Henry David Thoreau; Civil Disobedience;

Summary/Abstract: Democracy, in the context of political science and political sociology, is one of the most widely talked about and discussed topics in the academia and in general public. In the contemporary world, democracy went far beyond being a political system and became the criterion for the evaluation of political systems. Such a broad standing of it differentiated expectations from democracy. Even though democracy constitutes the dominant political discourse of the contemporary world, criticisms towards it continue exist in the historical process. While some of these criticisms claim to carry democracy to a more mature level, others attacked democracy asserting that it is a system which produces injustices because of its internal dynamics. This study aims to analyze in the context of the ideas of Henry David Thoreau, who prioritizes all these new quests and interrogations in terms of democracy in terms of the time period he lived and brought criticism against representative democracy.

  • Issue Year: 9/2018
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 675-703
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Turkish
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