First among equals: visions of equality before egalitarianism
Auteur :
Bejan, Teresa M.
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674249332
Date de publication :
20 oct. 2026
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
For millennia, abstract principles of equality persisted alongside hierarchy, exclusion, and enslavement. How did equality become an actionable political idea? Teresa Bejan returns to the seventeenth-century moment when first dissidents, then philosophers, finally imagined equality as a basis on which ordinary people could make political demands.