Format:
Online-Ressource (256 p)
ISBN:
9780231138802
Series Statement:
New Directions in Critical Theory
Content:
Political philosopher Noelle McAfee proposes a powerful new political theory for our post-9/11 world, in which an old pathology-the repetition compulsion-has manifested itself in a seemingly endless war on terror. McAfee argues that the quintessentially human desire to participate in a world with others is the key to understanding the public sphere and to creating a more democratic society, a world that all members can have a hand in shaping. But when some are effectively denied this participation, whether through trauma or terror, instead of democratic politics, there arises a political uncon
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Description based upon print version of record
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contents; acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 - The Political Unconscious; CHAPTER 2 - Modernity's Traumas; CHA PTER 3 - Targeting the Public Sphere; CHA PTER 4 - The Repetition Compulsion or the Endless War on Terror; CHAPTER 5 - Recovering Community; CHAPTER 6 -Deliberative Democracy; CHAPTER 7 -Feminist Theory, Politics,and Freedom; CHAPTER 8 -Public Knowledge; CHAPTER 9 - Three Models of Democratic Deliberation; CHAPTER 10 - The Limits of Deliberation,Democratic Myths, New Frontiers; CHAPTER 11 - Media and the Public Sphere; Epilogue; notes; works cited; index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231511124
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231138802
Additional Edition:
Print version Democracy and the Political Unconscious
Language:
English
Keywords:
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