Democratic Piety : : Complexity, Conflict and Violence / / Adrian Little.
This book presents an innovative analysis of the nature of democratic theory, focusing on the prevalence of pious discourses of democracy in contemporary politics. Democracy is now promoted in religious terms to such an extent that it has become sacrosanct in Western political theory. This book argu...
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Little, Adrian, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Democratic Piety : Complexity, Conflict and Violence / Adrian Little. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2008 1 online resource (208 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Taking on the Political : TAPO Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Pious Discourses of Democracy -- 1 Complexity Theory and Democratic Politics -- 2 Complexity, Democratisation and Conflict -- 3 Democracy, Consensus and Dissent -- 4 Democracy and Violence -- 5 Terrorism, Violence and the Ethics of Democracy -- Conclusion: The Constitutive Failure of Democracy -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This book presents an innovative analysis of the nature of democratic theory, focusing on the prevalence of pious discourses of democracy in contemporary politics. Democracy is now promoted in religious terms to such an extent that it has become sacrosanct in Western political theory. This book argues that such piety relies on unsophisticated political analysis paying scant attention to the complex conditions of contemporary politics. The contention is that it is more useful to think of democracy in terms of the centrality of political disagreement and its propensity to generate political violence. This argument is exemplified by the ways in which democracy and violence have been conceptualised in the war on terrorism.Key FeaturesChallenges democratic piety through the application of key contemporary approaches in political theory: complexity theory, post-structuralism and the idea of radical democracyUses the work of theorists such as Jacques Rancière, William Connolly, Chantal Mouffe, Judith Butler, Slavoj Žižek, Giorgio Agamben, Walter Benjamin and Alain Badiou to interrogate the discourses of democracy which characterise contemporary political debateGrounds the theoretical analysis of democratic discourse with examples from contemporary politics including the war on terror and the struggles for recognition of refugees and asylum seekers Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Democracy Philosophy. Political science. Politics. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political ideologies / Democracy. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 9783110780468 print 9780748633654 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748633661?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748633661 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748633661/original |
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