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The constructivist turn in political representation /

This volume traces the roots of the constructivist turn in the distinct (and competing) traditions of Continental and Anglo-American Western political thought. Divided into three thematic parts, these 13 newly commissioned essays develop the constructivist turn as a central concept. They advance the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Disch, Lisa Jane (Editor ), Sande, Mathijs van de (Editor ), Urbinati, Nadia, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction: the end of representative politics?
  • Part I The constructivist turn: Anglo-American and Continental intellectual genealogies
  • 2 Rethinking democratic representation: eight theoretical issues and a postscript
  • 3 Machiavelli against the Venice myth: a sixteenth-century dialogue on the nature of political representation
  • 4 Power without representation is blind, representations without power are empty
  • 5 Two regimes of the symbolic: radical democracy between Romanticism and structuralism
  • 6 Political representation: the view from France
  • 7 Democracy and representation
  • Part II The constructivist turn: normative challenges
  • 8 Representation as proposition: democratic representation after the constructivist turn
  • 9 Don Alejandro's fantasy: radical democracy and the negative concept of representation
  • 10 Pinning down representation
  • 11 Representative constructivism's conundrum
  • Part III Constructivist representation: critique and reproduction of power
  • 12 Exploring the Semantics of Constructivist Representation
  • 13 The improper politics of representation
  • 14 The constructivist paradox: contemporary protest movements and (their) representation
  • Bibliography
  • Index