Illuminating and comprehensive, this excellent volume addresses the problematic relationship between democratic institutions and the current critique of enlightenment and modernity. It focuses on the terms and conditions under which it would be possible to prevent events such as 9/11 or the genocide in Darfur in the future.
Illuminating and comprehensive, this excellent volume addresses the problematic relationship between democratic institutions and the current critique of enlightenment and modernity. It focuses on the terms and conditions under which it would be possible to prevent events such as 9/11 or the genocide in Darfur in the future.
Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth is Saintsbury Professor Emerita at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She writes on the cultural history and current crisis of representation in western societies, and on the oppportunities it presents for rethinking commonly held understandings of political and personal life. She has held several distinguished appointments on both sides of the Atlantic.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents: Preface; Democracy and postmodernity: the problem Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth; Citizenship Resistance and Democracy Edward W. Said; Democracy as agonistic pluralism Chantal Mouffe; Post-foundationalism and social democracy Mark Bevir; Rewriting equality: difference social justice and 'postsocialist' politics Fran Tonkiss; The politics of equality and the media: The Example of Feminism Kristyn Gorton; Universal Ideals in a Multicultural Age: Pierre Bourdieu's recent theory and politics Jeremy F. Lane; Self-Qualifying Systems: Consensus and Dissent in Postmodernity Thomas Vargish; Index.
Contents: Preface; Democracy and postmodernity: the problem Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth; Citizenship Resistance and Democracy Edward W. Said; Democracy as agonistic pluralism Chantal Mouffe; Post-foundationalism and social democracy Mark Bevir; Rewriting equality: difference social justice and 'postsocialist' politics Fran Tonkiss; The politics of equality and the media: The Example of Feminism Kristyn Gorton; Universal Ideals in a Multicultural Age: Pierre Bourdieu's recent theory and politics Jeremy F. Lane; Self-Qualifying Systems: Consensus and Dissent in Postmodernity Thomas Vargish; Index.
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