Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Re-Interpreting Democracy for Our Time
- 2 Autonomy in and between Polities: Democracy and the Need for Collective Political Selves
- 3 Rethinking ‘Modern’ Democracy: Political Modernity and Constituent Power
- 4 Democratic Surplus and Democracy-in-Failing: On Ancient and Modern Self-Cancellation of Democracy
- 5 Setbacks of Women's Emancipation (Condition, Consequence, Measure and Ruse)
- 6 Political Modernity, Democracy and State–Society Relations in Latin America: A New Socio-Historical Problématique?
- 7 Communitarian Cosmopolitanism: Argentina's Recuperated Factories, Neoliberal Globalisation and Democratic Citizenship. An Arendtian Perspective
- 8 Middle-Classing in Roodepoort: Unexpected Sites of Post-Apartheid ‘Community’
- 9 Democracy and Capitalism in Europe, Brazil and South Africa
- 10 From Realism to Activism: A Critique of Resignation in Political Theory
- 11 The World as We Find It: A Suggestion for a Democratic Theory for Our Times
- 12 Epilogue: Democracy as Capacity for Self-Transformation
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2016
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Re-Interpreting Democracy for Our Time
- 2 Autonomy in and between Polities: Democracy and the Need for Collective Political Selves
- 3 Rethinking ‘Modern’ Democracy: Political Modernity and Constituent Power
- 4 Democratic Surplus and Democracy-in-Failing: On Ancient and Modern Self-Cancellation of Democracy
- 5 Setbacks of Women's Emancipation (Condition, Consequence, Measure and Ruse)
- 6 Political Modernity, Democracy and State–Society Relations in Latin America: A New Socio-Historical Problématique?
- 7 Communitarian Cosmopolitanism: Argentina's Recuperated Factories, Neoliberal Globalisation and Democratic Citizenship. An Arendtian Perspective
- 8 Middle-Classing in Roodepoort: Unexpected Sites of Post-Apartheid ‘Community’
- 9 Democracy and Capitalism in Europe, Brazil and South Africa
- 10 From Realism to Activism: A Critique of Resignation in Political Theory
- 11 The World as We Find It: A Suggestion for a Democratic Theory for Our Times
- 12 Epilogue: Democracy as Capacity for Self-Transformation
- Index
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- The Trouble with DemocracyPolitical Modernity in the 21st Century, pp. i - iiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2016