The Weariness of Democracy: Confronting the Failure of Liberal Democracy

ISBN-13: 9783030193430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 216 str.

Obed Frausto; Jason Powell; Sarah Vitale

Spis treści

​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

O autorze

Obed Frausto is Assistant Professor of Honors Humanities at Ball State University, USA. 

Jason Powell is Assistant Professor of Honors Humanities at Ball State University, USA. 

Sarah Vitale is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ball State University, USA. 

Blurb

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.