| Description |
vii, 254 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Phronesis |
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Phronesis (London, England)
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| Contents |
Preface: Democratic Politics Today / Chantal Mouffe -- 1. Questions on Citizenship / Jean Leca -- 2. Outline of a Theory of Citizenship / Bryan Turner -- 3. Context is All: Feminism and Theories of Citizenship / Mary Dietz -- 4. The Civil Society Argument / Michael Walzer -- 5. On the Subject of Rights: Pluralism, Plurality and Political Identity / Kirstie McClure -- 6. The Paradoxes of Pluralism / Louise Marcil-Lacoste -- 7. Hannah Arendt and the Idea of Citizenship / Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves -- 8. Europe: A Political Community? / Etienne Tassin -- 9. Eastern Europe's Republics of Gilead / Slavoj Zizek -- 10. On Justice, the Common Good and the Priority of Liberty / Quentin Skinner -- 11. Democratic Citizenship and the Political Community / Chatal Mouffe -- 12. What Revolutionary Action Means Today / Sheldon Wolin |
| Summary |
The themes of citizenship and community are today at the centre of a fierce debate as both Left and Right try to mobilize them for their cause. For the Left such notions are crucial in all the current attempts to redefine political struggle through extending and deepening democracy. But, argue the contributors to this volume, these concepts need to be made compatible with the pluralism that marks modern democracy. Rather than reject the liberal tradition, they argue, the aim should be to radicalize it. These essays set out to examine what types of 'citizen' and 'community' might be required by such a radical and plural democracy. From a range of disciplines and a fruitful diversity of theoretical perspectives, the contributors help us to address the following challenge: how to defend the greatest possible pluralism without destroying the very framework of the democratic political community. Despite their differences, a vision emerges from these essays which is sharply at odds both with the universalistic and rationalistic conception to be found in the work of Habermas, and with postmodern celebrations of absolute heterogeneity. For this book is an exploration of politics--of a politics where power, conflict and antagonism will always play a central role |
| Analysis |
Radicalism |
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Citizenship |
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Democracy |
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Overseas item |
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Pluralism |
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Political participation |
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Radicalism |
| Notes |
(Phronesis) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Citizenship.
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Cultural pluralism.
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Democracy.
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Political participation.
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Radicalism.
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| Author |
Mouffe, Chantal.
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| LC no. |
92195567 |
| ISBN |
0860913449 |
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0860915565 |
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