The promise of democracy : political agency and transformation /
"A new ethical concept of democracy as the cultivation and practice of civic virtues in a pluralistic setting is presented in this thoughtful and wide-ranging study. Drawing upon such figures as Aristotle, Montesquieu, Hegel, Dewey, Heidegger, Arendt, and Lefort, Fred Dallmayr emphasizes the ne...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the promise of democracy
- Hegel for our time : negativity and democratic ethos
- Democratic action and experience : Dewey's "holistic" pragmatism
- Agency and letting-be : Heidegger on primordial praxis
- Action in the public realm : Arendt between past and future
- Postmodernism and radical democracy : Laclau and Mouffe on "hegemony"
- Jacques Derrida's legacy : "democracy to come"
- Who are we now? : for an "other" humanism
- Religion, politics, and Islam : toward multiple modes of democracy
- Beyond minimal democracy : voices from East and West.