The Weariness of Democracy

Produktdetails

Verlag

Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG

Erschienen

2019

Sprache

English

Seiten

228

Infos

228 Seiten
216 mm x 153 mm

ISBN

978-3-030-19340-9

Hauptbeschreibung

Liberal democracy today, having aligned itself with capitalism, is producing a generalized feeling of weariness and disillusionment with government among the citizenry of many countries.  Because of a decades-long march of globalized capitalism, economic oligarchies have gained oppressive levels of political power, and as a result, the economic needs of many people around the world have been neglected. It then becomes essential to remember that our ability to change society emerges from our power to formulate different questions; or, in this case, alternative understandings of democracy. This book draws together a variety of alternative theories of democracies in a quest to expose readers to a selection of the most exciting and innovative new approaches to politics today. The consideration of these leading alternative conceptualizations of democracy is important, as it is now common to see xenophobic and racist rhetoric using the platform of liberal democracy to threaten ideas of plurality, diversity, equality, and economic justice. In looking at four different models of democracy (utopian democracy, radical democracy, republican democracy, and plural democracy) this book argues that encounters with alternate conceptualizations of democracy is necessary if citizens and scholars are going to understand the constellation of possibilities that exist for inclusive, plural, economically equal, and just societies.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: The Weariness of DemocracyPart I Utopian Democracy2 Utopia and Democracy3 The Map of the World and the Coffin of Utopia4 What Is Old and New in Our Democracies?Part II Radical Democracy5 The Politics of Resentment: Job and Antigone at the Origin of Politics6 The Limits of Radical DemocracyPart III Republican Democracy7 Community Democracy8 Republicanizing Democracy: An Antidote to Weariness?9 Democracy, Disillusionment, and the New Social Question: A Discussion of the Mexican ExperiencePart IV Plural Democracy10 White Democracy and the Foreigner: A Call for Plural Cultural Democracy11 Latin American Democracy in the Twenty-First Century: Between Crisis and Alternatives12 The Radical Integrity of Individual: An Existential Response to Oppression

Klappentext

Liberal democracy today, having aligned itself with capitalism, is producing a generalized feeling of weariness and disillusionment with government among the citizenry of many countries.  Because of a decades-long march of globalized capitalism, economic oligarchies have gained oppressive levels of political power, and as a result, the economic needs of many people around the world have been neglected. It then becomes essential to remember that our ability to change society emerges from our power to formulate different questions; or, in this case, alternative understandings of democracy. This book draws together a variety of alternative theories of democracies in a quest to expose readers to a selection of the most exciting and innovative new approaches to politics today. The consideration of these leading alternative conceptualizations of democracy is important, as it is now common to see xenophobic and racist rhetoric using the platform of liberal democracy to threaten ideas of plurality, diversity, equality, and economic justice. In looking at four different models of democracy (utopian democracy, radical democracy, republican democracy, and plural democracy) this book argues that encounters with alternate conceptualizations of democracy is necessary if citizens and scholars are going to understand the constellation of possibilities that exist for inclusive, plural, economically equal, and just societies.

Über den AutorIn

Obed Frausto  is Assistant Professor of Honors Humanities at Ball State University, USA. 

Jason Powell  is Assistant Professor of Honors Humanities at Ball State University, USA. 

Sarah Vitale  is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ball State University, USA.