Format:
1 online resource (238 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781409403548
Series Statement:
Rethinking Political and International Theory Ser
Content:
The first book length study of agonism as a mature account of democratic politics, Institutionalizing Agonistic Democracy provides a lucid overview of agonistic democratic theories and demonstrates the viability of this approach for institutional politics. Situating agonistic democracy within and against debates about radical democracy, foundationalism, liberal democracy, and pluralism, Institutionalizing Agonistic Democracy engages the texts of Mouffe, Connolly, Ranciere, Tully, Honig, Owen, and others to fully map the contours of agonistic democratic theories. Organizing this diverse literature into a coherent typology enables sophisticated analysis of the assumptions, distinctions, and aspirations of the often conflicting theoretical positions gathered within the constellation of agonistic democratic theory. Using this framework to explore the concrete institutional possibilities appropriate to agonistic democracy, Wingenbach argues that a modified version of Rawlsian political liberalism describes the institutional conditions most likely to sustain agonistic political practices. Once shorn of metaphysical commitments and detached from aspirations to consensus, political liberalism offers a contingent and historically viable framework within which agonistic contestation can occur. Such a reinterpretation of Rawls produces not the sublimation of agonism but a transformation of liberalism, so that it more adequately accommodates the deep pluralism of the post-foundational condition.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Post-Foundationalism and Agonistic Democratic Theory -- 1 Post-Foundational Politics and Democracy -- 2 Agonism and Democracy -- 3 A Typology of Agonistic Democracy -- 4 Agonistic Democracy and the Question of Institutions -- Part II Evaluating the Institutional Possibilities for Agonistic Democracy -- 5 Agonistic Democracy and the Limits of Popular Participation -- 6 Populism, Representation, and the Popular Will -- 7 Political Liberalism, Contingency, and Agonistic Pluralism -- 8 Liberalism, Agonism, and Democracy -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Post-foundational politics and democracyAgonism and democracy -- A typology of agonistic democracy -- Agonistic democracy and the question of institutions -- Agonistic democracy and the limits of popular participation -- Populism, representation, and the popular will -- Political liberalism, contingency and agonistic pluralism -- Liberalism, agonism, and democracy.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781409403531
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781409403531
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Wingenbach, Edward C. Institutionalizing agonistic democracy Farnham [u.a.] : Ashgate, 2011 ISBN 9781409403548
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781409403531
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Deliberative Demokratie
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Politische Beteiligung
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