Democracy without politics
In Western democracies today, politics and politicians are held in contempt by the majority of citizens. Steven Bilakovics argues that this disdain of politics follows neither from the discontents of our liberal political system nor from the preoccupations of a consumer society. Rather, extending To...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press
2012.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009623531006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: democracy as self-subverting
- "More than kings yet less than men": Tocqueville on the new extremes of democratic society
- Civilization without the discontents: Tocqueville on democracy as the social state of nature
- The regime of revolution: Claude Lefort on history, nature, and convention after the democratic revolution
- Political phoenix: Sheldon Wolin on the limits and limitlessness of democracy
- Conclusion: post-politics: society without argument.
