The Weariness of Democracy: Confronting the Failure of Liberal Democracy 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 3030193411
• ISBN-13: 9783030193416
• Author: Jason Powell, Obed Frausto, Sarah Vitale
  

Liberal democracy today, having aligned itself with capitalism, is producing a generalized feeling of weariness and disillusionment with government among the citizenry of many countries. Because of a decades-long march of globalized capitalism, economic oligarchies have gained oppressive levels of political power, and as a result, the economic needs of many people around the world have been neglected. It then becomes essential to remember that our ability to change society emerges from our power to formulate different questions; or, in this case, alternative understandings of democracy. This book draws together a variety of alternative theories of democracies in a quest to expose readers to a selection of the most exciting and innovative new approaches to politics today. The consideration of these leading alternative conceptualizations of democracy is important, as it is now common to see xenophobic and racist rhetoric using the platform of liberal democracy to threaten ideas of plurality, diversity, equality, and economic justice. In looking at four different models of democracy (utopian democracy, radical democracy, republican democracy, and plural democracy) this book argues that encounters with alternate conceptualizations of democracy is necessary if citizens and scholars are going to understand the constellation of possibilities that exist for inclusive, plural, economically equal, and just societies.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: The Weariness of Democracy
Part I. Utopian Democracy
2. Utopia and Democracy
3. The Map of the World and the Coffin of Utopia
4. What Is Old and New in Our Democracies?
Part II. Radical Democracy
5. The Politics of Resentment: Job and Antigone at the Origin of Politics
6. The Limits of Radical Democracy
Part III. Republican Democracy
7. Community Democracy
8. Republicanizing Democracy: An Antidote to Weariness?
9. Democracy, Disillusionment, and the New Social Question: A Discussion of the Mexican Experience
Part IV. Plural Democracy
10. White Democracy and the Foreigner: A Call for Plural Cultural Democracy
11. Latin American Democracy in the Twenty-First Century: Between Crisis and Alternatives
12. The Radical Integrity of Individual: An Existential Response to Oppression

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