UID:
almafu_9959660932802883
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
1-4744-4262-5
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1-4744-5986-2
Series Statement:
Edinburgh scholarship online
Content:
This volume traces the roots of the constructivist turn in the distinct (and competing) traditions of Continental and Anglo-American Western political thought. Divided into three thematic parts, these essays advance the insight that there can be no democratic politics without representation.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2019.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of tables --
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Acknowledgements --
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1. Introduction: the end of representative politics? --
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Part I: The constructivist turn: Anglo-American and Continental intellectual genealogies --
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2. Rethinking democratic representation: eight theoretical issues and a postscript --
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3. Machiavelli against the Venice myth: a sixteenthcentury dialogue on the nature of political representation --
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4. Power without representation is blind, representations without power are empty --
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5. Two regimes of the symbolic: radical democracy between Romanticism and structuralism --
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6. Political representation: the view from France --
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7. Democracy and representation --
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Part II: The constructivist turn: normative challenges --
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8. Representation as proposition: democratic representation after the constructivist turn --
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9. Don Alejandro’s fantasy: radical democracy and the negative concept of representation --
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10. Pinning down representation --
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11. Representative constructivism’s conundrum --
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Part III: Constructivist representation: critique and reproduction of power --
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12. Exploring the semantics of constructivist representation --
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13. The improper politics of representation --
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14. The constructivist paradox: contemporary protest movements and (their) representation --
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Bibliography --
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4744-4260-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781474442626
URL:
Edinburgh scholarship online
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