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Against the Masses: Varieties of Anti-Democratic Thought Since the French Revolution

Joseph V. Femia

Print publication date: 2001

Print ISBN-13: 9780198280637

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003

DOI: 10.1093/0198280637.001.0001

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Conclusion

Conclusion

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(p.159) 5 Conclusion
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Against the Masses
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Joseph V. Femia (Contributor Webpage)

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/0198280637.003.0005

Summarizes the various arguments of the book and further explores the idea of unanticipated consequences and its significance for democratic and anti‐democratic thought. Anti‐democratic thinkers assume that their opponents ignore the unpredictable nature of reality but so do they. Most of their dire forecasts have not come to pass. Yet these ‘reactionaries’ have alerted us to the limitations of democratic thought: its indifference to the problems posed by cultural relativity and growing social complexity.

Keywords:   anti‐democratic thought, cultural relativity, democracy, reactionaries, social complexity, unanticipated consequences

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