Democracy in Question pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024


Democracy in Question

简体网页||繁体网页
Keenan, Alan
Stanford Univ Pr
2003
238
218.00元
Pap
9780804738651

图书标签: 阿伦特  政治哲学  当代政治哲学   


喜欢 Democracy in Question 的读者还喜欢




点击这里下载
    


想要找书就要到 小哈图书下载中心
立刻按 ctrl+D收藏本页
你会得到大惊喜!!

发表于2024-12-24

Democracy in Question epub 下载 mobi 下载 pdf 下载 txt 电子书 下载 2024

Democracy in Question epub 下载 mobi 下载 pdf 下载 txt 电子书 下载 2024

Democracy in Question pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024



图书描述

This book explores the theoretical paradoxes and practical dilemmas that flow from the still radical idea that in a democracy it is the people who rule, and argues that accepting the open and uncertain character of democratic politics can lead to more sustainable and widespread forms of democratic engagement.

The author engages theorists from a range of democratic thought—Rousseau, Arendt, Benhabib, Sandel, Laclau, and Mouffe—to show how each either ignores or downplays the difficulties that democratic principles pose. Though there can be no entirely valid solution to the paradoxes that plague democracy, the author nonetheless argues that democratic politics—particularly under contemporary conditions of social fragmentation and insecurity—urgently requires new practical and rhetorical strategies. The book concludes by addressing the American context, elaborating the need for a language of democratic engagement less ensnared in the anti-political logic of moralism and resentment that now characterizes the American political spectrum.

Review

"The very features of democracy that make it attractive—its openness, reflexivity, and fluidity—also generates objectionable qualities. Even at its best, democracy generates serial resolutions, each of which brings into existence new closures, manifest in the new and serial 'we's' constituted by democratic procedures. In this fine book, Alan Keenan argues that democrats must understand that these objectionable features are essential to what democracy is. Examining a number of contemporary democratic theories committed to openness and inclusion, Keenan shows how often strategies for grounding democratic openness edge toward closure, and do so while failing to acknowledge the basic risks of democratic experience. What if, Keenan asks, the search for unquestionable grounds for democratic openness turns out to undermine democracy, not because of the substance of the grounds, but because of the nature of the search? Would it be possible to transform the objectionable features of democracy into a source of a democratic ethos? Keenan suggests that the risks of democracy might be affirmed as a shared fate in ways that support openness, providing an ethical complement to more traditional approaches to democratic theory and practice. Whether or not they agree with his solution, it will be hard for democratic theorists to ignore Keenan's powerful formulation of the problem." —Professor Mark E. Warren,Georgetown University

"There is a paradox at the heart of the idea of democracy a product of its commitment to freedom combined with its need to found that freedom in a foundation that constrains. Democracy, devoted to freedom, is always, ineluctably implicated in sovereignty, violence and rule. This paradox is ignored or resolved by most democratic theorists, but not by Alan Keenan. In Democracy in Question, Keenan relentlessly tracks the mischief worked by democracyís fundamental paradox in the thinking of Castoriadis, Rousseau, Arendt, Laclau and Mouffe, and Sandel. Keenanís readings of all these thinkers are masterful. On Arendt, in particular, he is brilliant. This book, rigorous, penetrating and clearly written, is no less than a must-read for everyone interested in democratic theory and the politics of freedom and legitimation." —Bonnie Honig,Northwestern University & The American Bar Foundation

"Democracy makes possible popular sovereignty yet seems to presuppose the very people that it makes. Keenan's rich account of this and other contradictions in theory concludes with an arresting, if somewhat paradoxical, suggestion for the improvement of democratic practice—that the key to a more robust political future is the cultivation of more modest democratic virtues, such as capacity for self-limitation in support of democracy always in question. Profoundly radical and eminently sober at the same time, this book is democratic theory at its best." —Jeffrey K. Tulis,University of Texas at Austin

From the Inside Flap

This book explores the theoretical paradoxes and practical dilemmas that flow from the still radical idea that in a democracy it is the people who rule, and argues that accepting the open and uncertain character of democratic politics can lead to more sustainable and widespread forms of democratic engagement.

The author engages theorists from a range of democratic thought—Rousseau, Arendt, Benhabib, Sandel, Laclau, and Mouffe—to show how each either ignores or downplays the difficulties that democratic principles pose. Though there can be no entirely valid solution to the paradoxes that plague democracy, the author nonetheless argues that democratic politics—particularly under contemporary conditions of social fragmentation and insecurity—urgently requires new practical and rhetorical strategies. The book concludes by addressing the American context, elaborating the need for a language of democratic engagement less ensnared in the anti-political logic of moralism and resentment that now characterizes the American political spectrum.

From the Back Cover

“The very features of democracy that make it attractive—its openness, reflexivity, and fluidity—also generates objectionable qualities. Even at its best, democracy generates serial resolutions, each of which brings into existence new closures, manifest in the new and serial ‘we’s’ constituted by democratic procedures. In this fine book, Alan Keenan argues that democrats must understand that these objectionable features are essential to what democracy is. Examining a number of contemporary democratic theories committed to openness and inclusion, Keenan shows how often strategies for grounding democratic openness edge toward closure, and do so while failing to acknowledge the basic risks of democratic experience. What if, Keenan asks, the search for unquestionable grounds for democratic openness turns out to undermine democracy, not because of the substance of the grounds, but because of the nature of the search? Would it be possible to transform the objectionable features of democracy into a source of a democratic ethos? Keenan suggests that the risks of democracy might be affirmed as a shared fate in ways that support openness, providing an ethical complement to more traditional approaches to democratic theory and practice. Whether or not they agree with his solution, it will be hard for democratic theorists to ignore Keenan’s powerful formulation of the problem.” —Professor Mark E. Warren,Georgetown University

“There is a paradox at the heart of the idea of democracy a product of its commitment to freedom combined with its need to found that freedom in a foundation that constrains. Democracy, devoted to freedom, is always, ineluctably implicated in sovereignty, violence and rule. This paradox is ignored or resolved by most democratic theorists, but not by Alan Keenan. In Democracy in Question, Keenan relentlessly tracks the mischief worked by democracyís fundamental paradox in the thinking of Castoriadis, Rousseau, Arendt, Laclau and Mouffe, and Sandel. Keenanís readings of all these thinkers are masterful. On Arendt, in particular, he is brilliant. This book, rigorous, penetrating and clearly written, is no less than a must-read for everyone interested in democratic theory and the politics of freedom and legitimation.” —Bonnie Honig,Northwestern University & The American Bar Foundation

Democracy in Question 下载 mobi epub pdf txt 电子书

著者简介

Alan Keenan is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Peace and Conflict Studies at Bryn Mawr College, where he teaches classes in the Political Science department. He spent most of the preceding three years in Sri Lanka conducting research on the politics of human rights and the role of local civil society organizations in peace and conflict dynamics. He received his PhD in political theory from Johns Hopkins University and has taught at various institutions across the country. He is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: On the Politics of Human Rights and Civil Society Building in Sri Lanka."


图书目录


Democracy in Question pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载
想要找书就要到 小哈图书下载中心
立刻按 ctrl+D收藏本页
你会得到大惊喜!!

用户评价

评分

2. Promises, Promises: The Abyss of Freedom and the Loss of the Political in the Work of Hannah Arendt. 作者分析了Arendt的《论革命》一书的论证,最后批判她的逻辑,认为,自由必然会伴随着自由的衰落,革命之后the political必然会被the non-political取代,阿伦特提出的promise, authority, written constitution等手段无法有效保证在稳定的环境中the political这一场域永远开放,因此她无法完全反驳卢梭以及sovereignty在政治中的重要性。

评分

2. Promises, Promises: The Abyss of Freedom and the Loss of the Political in the Work of Hannah Arendt. 作者分析了Arendt的《论革命》一书的论证,最后批判她的逻辑,认为,自由必然会伴随着自由的衰落,革命之后the political必然会被the non-political取代,阿伦特提出的promise, authority, written constitution等手段无法有效保证在稳定的环境中the political这一场域永远开放,因此她无法完全反驳卢梭以及sovereignty在政治中的重要性。

评分

2. Promises, Promises: The Abyss of Freedom and the Loss of the Political in the Work of Hannah Arendt. 作者分析了Arendt的《论革命》一书的论证,最后批判她的逻辑,认为,自由必然会伴随着自由的衰落,革命之后the political必然会被the non-political取代,阿伦特提出的promise, authority, written constitution等手段无法有效保证在稳定的环境中the political这一场域永远开放,因此她无法完全反驳卢梭以及sovereignty在政治中的重要性。

评分

2. Promises, Promises: The Abyss of Freedom and the Loss of the Political in the Work of Hannah Arendt. 作者分析了Arendt的《论革命》一书的论证,最后批判她的逻辑,认为,自由必然会伴随着自由的衰落,革命之后the political必然会被the non-political取代,阿伦特提出的promise, authority, written constitution等手段无法有效保证在稳定的环境中the political这一场域永远开放,因此她无法完全反驳卢梭以及sovereignty在政治中的重要性。

评分

2. Promises, Promises: The Abyss of Freedom and the Loss of the Political in the Work of Hannah Arendt. 作者分析了Arendt的《论革命》一书的论证,最后批判她的逻辑,认为,自由必然会伴随着自由的衰落,革命之后the political必然会被the non-political取代,阿伦特提出的promise, authority, written constitution等手段无法有效保证在稳定的环境中the political这一场域永远开放,因此她无法完全反驳卢梭以及sovereignty在政治中的重要性。

读后感

评分

评分

评分

评分

评分

类似图书 点击查看全场最低价

Democracy in Question pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024


分享链接









相关图书




本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息,本站不存储任何数据与内容,任何内容与数据均与本站无关,如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度google,bing,sogou

友情链接

© 2024 qciss.net All Rights Reserved. 小哈图书下载中心 版权所有