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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dallmayr, Fred R. (Fred Reinhard), 1928-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.