Martikainen Political Poverty

Losing Faith in Democracy
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-98269-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 199 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

Fusing critical social theory to critical and political phenomenology,  presents a substantial contribution to current discussions on democratic inequality, political agency, political exclusion, and the role of experience in critical theorizing. puts forward an experiential account of political agency that can untangle theoretical knots of the discussion on the inequality of political participation. It also delivers a set of thinking tools that enable political theorists to better understand the motivational aspect of political agency, as well as suggestions on how even seemingly hopeless situations can be addressed by determined bottom-up efforts. Readers will come away from the book with a new perspective on political agency and the problems of encouraging democratic participation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martikainen, Joonas S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Ch 1: Introduction.- Part I: Theorizing Loss of Freedom.- Ch 2: On Experientalist Theorizing.- Ch 3: Political Passivity and Political Poverty.- Ch 4: On Faith, or How Freedom Becomes Meaningful.- Part II: Loss of Experiential Freedom.- Ch 5: Loss of Trust.- Ch 6: Loss of Expressivity.- Ch 7: Loss of Access to the Public World.- Ch 8: Loss of Hope.- Ch 9: Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Joonas S. Martikainen is working as a grant researcher with the project (2025–2029) at the Department of Philosophy, University of Turku, Finland. He was previously a part of the work group at the Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland. His research interests include contemporary continental political theory and critical and political phenomenology, focusing on the broader social conditions of meaningful political agency.