Why Democracy Is Oppositional / / John Medearis.
John Medearis argues that democracies face challenges which go beyond civic lethargy and unreasonable debate. Democracy is inherently a fragile state of affairs because citizens create the very institutions that overwhelm them. Hostile threats are the product of their own collective activities, and...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (250 p.) :; 1 table |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Ironic Place of Movements in Democratic Theory
- 2. Episodes in the History of Alienation and Democratic Theory
- 3. A Contemporary Theory of Alienation
- 4. Oppositional Democracy
- 5. Contesting the Welfare State
- Epilogue. On Alienation and the Contemporary Security State
- Notes
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Index