A Personal Despot is a dictator or a tyrant by nature. This is basically what the definition state. However, some philosophers and thinkers believe that despots do not necessarily have to be unjust and totalitarian.

The tyrants discussed in The Nature of Despotism share common backgrounds, behaviours and motivations that, when viewed together, can be seen as forming the character of the despot.

This book is born form the intuition that the answer to this question is positive; however, like any work that requires the activity of thinking, the initial hypothesis had to be tested.

But many have hardened into something very different from liberal democracy: what the eminent political thinker John Keane describes as a new form of despotism. And one day, he warns, we may be more like them.

To discern the meaning of this malaise we must investigate the nature of liberal democracy, says the author of this provocative book, and he undertakes to do so through a detailed investigation of the thinking of Montesquieu, Rousseau, and ...

With in-depth empirical analysis of a range of case studies, this book offers a comprehensive genealogy of the concepts of economy, despotism and voluntary servitude and provides a thorough and coherent reflection on the wider socio ...