Format:
Online-Ressource (354 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781107003729
Content:
A pioneering analysis of agonistic democracy, its history, central thinkers and contribution to contemporary political theory
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Preface; Politics in a new century; The politics of diversity; The politics of fundamentalism; The politics of globalisation; Acknowledgements; Part I; Introduction: agonism and the constituent power; Situating contemporary agonistic democracy; Agonism and the relative priority of the constituent power; The constituent power as augmentation and revolution; The priority of the strategic question- or what is to be done?; Agonism and liberal democracy, or the possibility of historical transformation; Structure of the book; 1 Agonism: pluralism, tragedy, and the value of conflict
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Constitutive pluralismThe rebirth of tragedy; The value of conflict; Conclusion; 2 Democracy: the constituent power as augmentation and/or revolution; Carl Schmitt: the absolute priority of the constituent power figured as sovereign decision; The constituent power as augmentation and revolution; Against the dialectical reading of modern constitutionalism; Contemporary theories of liberal democracy; Liberal constitutionalism; Aggregative democracy; Deliberative democracy; Cosmopolitan democracy; Radical democracy; Agonistic democracy as augmentation and/or revolution; Part II
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3 An ethos of agonistic respect: William E. ConnollyEthical sensibility: Augustine vs. Nietzsche; A post-Nietzschean ethical sensibility of agonistic respect; Agonism and the ends of democratic politics; Globalisation, cosmopolitanism, and capitalism; Immanent naturalism; Conclusion; 4 Agonistic struggles for independence: James Tully; Agonism and the politics of recognition; Wittgenstein and agonistic 'dialogue'; Tully and his critics; Globalisation as the new imperialism; Glocal citizenship; Conclusion; 5 Agonism and the problem of antagonism: Chantal Mouffe; Pluralism and Hegemony
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From the struggle for emancipation to the problem of antagonismAgonistic democracy as the sublimation of antagonism; The liberal democratic paradox; Agonism and republicanism; Against cosmopolitanism; Conclusion; 6 Agonism and the paradoxes of (re)foundation: Bonnie Honig; Agonism and the politics of virtù; Honig on Arendt (1)- the exercise of freedom into the social; Honig on Arendt (2)- from revolution to the politics of daily (re)foundation; Honig vs. Arendt on the character of augmentation; The proliferation of paradoxes; Democracy and the irreducible foreignness of the founder
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ConclusionPart III; 7 Agonism and militant cosmopolitanism; Alternate globalisation; Action, pluralism, and judgement; Reflective judgement and cosmopolitanism; Post-secularism and the conviction of the actor; Agonism, cosmopolitanism, and post-sovereign leadership; Conclusion; Conclusion: Agonism after the end of history; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107464704
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107003729
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Agonistic Democracy : Constituent Power in the Era of Globalisation
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
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