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Democracy in crisis : Violence, alterity, community.
This volume explores the political implications of violence and alterity (radical difference) for the practice of democracy, and reformulates the possibility of community that democracy is said to entail. Most significantly, contributors intervene in traditional democratic theory by boldly contestin...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Perspectives on democratic practice.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | This volume explores the political implications of violence and alterity (radical difference) for the practice of democracy, and reformulates the possibility of community that democracy is said to entail. Most significantly, contributors intervene in traditional democratic theory by boldly contesting the widely-held assumption that increased inclusion, tolerance and cultural recognition are democracy's sufficient conditions. Rather than simply inquiring how best to expand the 'demos', they investigate how claims to self-determination, identity and sovereignty are a problem for democracy and ho. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (321 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781847792983 1847792987 |