Dallmayr The Promise of Democracy

Political Agency and Transformation
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3040-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Presentation of a new, ethical vision of democracy built around self-rule, civic education, and ethical cultivation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dallmayr, Fred

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. Introduction: The Promise of Democracy

2. Hegel for Our Time: Negativity and Democratic Ethos

3. Democratic Action and Experience: Dewey’s “Holistic” Pragmatism

4. Agency and Letting-Be: Heidegger on Primordial Praxis

5. Action in the Public Realm: Arendt Between Past and Future

6. Postmodernism and Radical Democracy: Laclau and Mouffe on “Hegemony”

7. Jacques Derrida’s Legacy:“Democracy to Come”

8. Who Are We Now? For an “Other” Humanism

9. Religion, Politics, and Islam: Toward Multiple Modes of Democracy

10. Beyond Minimal Democracy: Voices from East and West

Appendices
A. Democracy Without Banisters: Reading Claude Lefort
B. The Return of the Political: On Chantal Mouffe
C. Exiting Liberal Democracy? Bell and Confucian Thought

Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fred Dallmayr is Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of several books, including Beyond Orientalism: Essays on Cross-Cultural Encounter and Margins of Political Discourse, both also published by SUNY Press, and In Search of the Good Life: A Pedagogy for Troubled Times.