Democracy and the political unconscious /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McAfee, Noëlle, 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]
Series:New directions in critical theory.
Subjects:
Democratization.
Deliberative democracy.
Political science > Philosophy.
Political psychology.
Critical theory.
Feminism > Political aspects.
Démocratisation.
Démocratie délibérative.
Psychologie politique.
Théorie critique.
Féminisme > Aspect politique.
critical theories (dialectical critiques)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Deconstruction.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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