10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PEDANTOCRACY»
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pedantocracy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Correspondence of John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte
who is very well aware that, as I told him informally, "the worst government is
pedantocracy," to use the happy expression with which you regaled me and
which I put to such good use under these circumstances, in this milieu where it
would ...
John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte, Oscar A. Haac
2
Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative ...
Pedantocracy, like oriental despotism in republican tradition, denotes a
comprehensive system rather than simply a degenerated form of government.54
In Representative Government, despotism loses many of its violent features and
becomes ...
originality, there could result only what one finds in China, a pedantocracy” (CW
13:502).28 The context of Mill's remark was his acceptance of Comte's arguments
for the separation of the temporal and spiritual powers that would prevent some ...
Jeremy Elkins, Andrew Norris, 2012
4
Auguste Comte: Volume 2: An Intellectual Biography
1843—1844: The Battle against the Pedantocracy If the time of butchers and
poisonings or simply that of guillotines could come back, they [the members ofthe
pedantocracy] would dare to do every— thing against me because they are
always ...
At the end of the essay, however, he referred to a form of government for which
he had earlier coined the term 'pedantocracy' (see Riley 1998a: 144; Urbinati
2002: 55ff.; Riley 2007: 221ff.).8 In an early letter to Comte, Mill had written: The ...
6
The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought: ...
If we would possess permanently a skilful and efficient body of functionaries—
above all, a body able to originate and willing to adopt improvements; if we would
not have our bureaucracy degenerate into a pedantocracy,2 this body must not ...
Andrew Bailey, Samantha Brennan, Will Kymlicka, 2008
In one of the early letters, he coined the word " pedantocracy," which Comte
caught up, and threw about him right and left, ever after. Already in 1842 troubles
were brewing for him in Paris, partly in consequence of his peculiar tenets, and
still ...
8
Karl Marx and the Anarchists Library Editions: Political Science
... Bakunin's obsessive views of the General Council as a monolithic phalanx of
authoritarian communists with an unshakeable, unreasoning belief in state
centralization, or as a pedantocracy that concealed behind endless layers of
theorizing ...
While it was unfavourable to 'individual energy of mind' and always tended to
become 'a pedantocracy', bureaucracy also 'accumulates experience, acquires
well-tried and well-considered traditional maxims, and makes provision for ...
10
Representative Government
A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy. When the bureaucracy
is the real government, the spirit of the corps (as with the Jesuits) bears down the
individuality of its more distinguished members. In the profession of government,
...
