Democracy without politics

Introduction: democracy as self-subverting -- "More than kings yet less than men": Tocqueville on the new extremes of democratic society -- Civilization without the discontents: Tocqueville on democracy as the social state of nature -- The regime of revolution: Claude Lefort on history, na...

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1. Verfasser: Bilakovics, Steven (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass u.a. Harvard Univ. Press 2012
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: democracy as self-subverting -- "More than kings yet less than men": Tocqueville on the new extremes of democratic society -- Civilization without the discontents: Tocqueville on democracy as the social state of nature -- The regime of revolution: Claude Lefort on history, nature, and convention after the democratic revolution -- Political phoenix: Sheldon Wolin on the limits and limitlessness of democracy -- Conclusion: post-politics: society without argument.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-294) and index
Beschreibung:303 S.
25 cm
ISBN:9780674058224
978-0-674-05822-4