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Democracy and the political unconscious /

"Political philosopher Noelle McAfee proposes a powerful new political theory for our post-9/11 world, in which an old pathology--the repetition compulsion--has manifested itself in a seemingly endless war on terror. McAfee argues that the quintessentially human desire to participate in a world...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McAfee, Noëlle, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]
Colección:New directions in critical theory.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The political unconscious
  • Modernity's traumas
  • Targeting the public sphere
  • The repetition compulsion or the endless war on terror
  • Recovering community
  • Deliberative democracy
  • Feminist theory, politics, and freedom
  • Public knowledge
  • Three models of democratic deliberation
  • The limits of deliberation, democratic myths, new frontiers
  • Media and the public sphere
  • Epilogue.