The weariness of democracy : confronting the failure of liberal democracy

The weariness of democracy : confronting the failure of liberal democracy / Obed Frausto, Jason Powell, Sarah Vitale, editors.

Liberal democracy today, having aligned itself with capitalism, is producing a generalized feeling of weariness and disillusionment with government among the citizenry of many countries. Because of a decades-long march of globalized capitalism, economic oligarchies have gained oppressive levels of p...

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Other Authors: Frausto, Obed (Editor), Powell, Jason (Editor), Vitale, Sarah (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Subjects:
Democracy.
Democracy
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Utopia and Democracy
  • 2. The Map of the World and the Coffin of Utopia
  • 3. What is New and Old in Our Democracies?
  • 4. Politics of the Resentment in Job and Antigone at the Origin of Politics
  • 5. From Oligarchy to Democracy: The Mythology of European Democracy and the League of Six Nations
  • 6. Revolutionary Potential in Agamben, Negri, and Marx
  • 7. Communitarian Democracy
  • 8. Trumps Democratic Tyranny and Tocquevilles Prophesy
  • 9. Republicanizing Democracy: An Antidote to Weariness?
  • 10. Democracy, Disillusionment, and the New Social Question: An Approximation to the Mexican Experience
  • 11. Plural Democracy and the Foreigner
  • 12. The Devil, Double Consciousness, and the Democratic Individual
  • 13. Latin American Democracy in the 21st Century: Between Crisis and Alternatives.

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