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"In his final work, Richard Rorty provides the definitive statement of his political thought. Rorty equates pragmatism with anti-authoritarianism, arguing that because there is no authority we can rely on to ascertain truth, we can only do so intersubjectively. It follows that we must learn to think and care about what others think and care about"--

Pragmatism. --- Authoritarianism. --- Ethics.

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The rise of authoritarian, nationalist forms of populism and the implications for rural actors and settings is one of the most crucial foci for critical agrarian studies today, with many consequences for political action. Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World reflects on the rural origins and consequences of the emergence of authoritarian and populist leaders across the world, as well as on the rise of multi-class mobilisation and resistance, alongside wider counter-movements and alternative practices, which together confront authoritarianism and nationalist populism. The book includes 20 chapters written by contributors to the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI), a global network of academics and activists committed to both reflective analysis and political engagement. Debates about populism', nationalism', authoritarianism' and more have exploded recently, but relatively little of this has focused on the rural dimensions. Yet, wherever one looks, the rural aspects are key - not just in electoral calculus, but in understanding underlying drivers of authoritarianism and populism, and potential counter-movements to these. Whether because of land grabs, voracious extractivism, infrastructural neglect or lack of services, rural peoples' disillusionment with the status quo has had deeply troubling consequences and occasionally hopeful ones, as the chapters in this book show. The chapters in this book were originally published in The Journal of Peasant Studies.

Authoritarianism. --- Political science --- Authority

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"Russie, Turquie, Brésil, Pologne, Venezuela, Nicaragua... La liste s'allonge des pays vivant un tournant autoritaire. Répression, restriction des libertés publiques et mise sous tutelle de nombreux secteurs sociaux participent d'un durcissement généralisé des modes de gouvernement, qui semble aujourd'hui affecter les démocraties les plus anciennes et les plus solides. L'ambition de cet ouvrage est de renouveler la question de l'autoritarisme, en repérant plutôt les processus qui font évoluer certains régimes de la démocratie vers un exercice brutal ou arbitraire du pouvoir. Les tournants autoritaires sont ici appréhendés sur le registre non de la rupture mais de la reconfiguration : à la temporalité courte du basculement autoritaire (consécutif, par exemple, à un coup d'État), les différents cas historiques ou contemporains présentés substituent la temporalité moyenne d'une recomposition des régimes politiques dans et par laquelle il est possible d'abuser du pouvoir."--Page 4 of cover.

Authoritarianism. --- World politics

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"In his final work, Richard Rorty provides the definitive statement of his political thought. Rorty equates pragmatism with anti-authoritarianism, arguing that because there is no authority we can rely on to ascertain truth, we can only do so intersubjectively. It follows that we must learn to think and care about what others think and care about"--

Ethics. --- Authoritarianism. --- Pragmatism.

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'The Nature of Tyranny' was written and published at the dawn of the twentieth century by Abdul Rahman Al-Kawakibi, one of the pioneering thinkers of the Arab world. More than a century later, another Arab awakening exploded, led by a new generation of youth who chanted Al-Kawakibi's words in revolutionary cries from Aleppo, his hometown, to Cairo's Tahrir Square. Today this seminal text appears in English for the first time, with a foreword from Leon T. Goldsmith offering an overview of Al-Kawakibi's intellectual contributions.

Despotism. --- Authoritarianism --- Dictatorship --- Totalitarianism --- Absolutism --- Autocracy --- Tyranny