Andrew Arato has become a prominent political theorist in the fields of democratic theory, constitutional law, and comparative politics. He has had a profound and global influence on the thinking of several generations of scholars. The Critical Theory and Democracy of Andrew Arato brings together original essays honouring Arato's intellectual contribution to the field, based round the themes in Arato's work of Critical Theory and Civil Society, Democracy and Dictatorship, and Constitution Making. It includes contributions from leading scholars such as Hubertus Buchstein, Jose Casanova, Dick...
Andrew Arato has become a prominent political theorist in the fields of democratic theory, constitutional law, and comparative politics. He has had a ...
This is the first English language volume to offer such a wide-ranging scholarly and intellectual perspective on Claude Lefort. It constitutes the most comprehensive attempt to reconstruct Lefort's engagement with his theoretical interlocutors as well as his influence on today's democratic thought and contemporary continental political philosophy.
This is the first English language volume to offer such a wide-ranging scholarly and intellectual perspective on Claude Lefort. It constitutes the mos...
This study uses new arguments to reinvestigate the relation between aesthetics and politics in the contemporary debates on democratic theory and radical democracy.
First, Carl Schmitt and Claude Lefort help delineate the contours of an aesthetico-political understanding of democracy, which is developed further by studying Merleau-Ponty, Ranciere, and Arendt.
The ideas of Merleau-Ponty serve to establish a general "ontological" framework that aims to contest the dominant currents in contemporary democratic theory. It is argued that Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and Ranciere share a...
This study uses new arguments to reinvestigate the relation between aesthetics and politics in the contemporary debates on democratic theory and ra...
This book focuses on Andrew Arato s democratic theory and its relevance to contemporary issues such as processes of democratization, civil society, constitution-making, and the modern Executive.
Andrew Arato is -both globally and disciplinarily- a prominent thinker in the fields of democratic theory, constitutional law, and comparative politics, influencing several generations of scholars. This is the first volume to systematically address his democratic theory. Including contributions from leading scholars such as Dick Howard, Ulrich Preuss, Hubertus Buchstein, Janos Kis, Uri Ram,...
This book focuses on Andrew Arato s democratic theory and its relevance to contemporary issues such as processes of democratization, civil society,...
El conjunto de ensayos aqui editados apuntan a capturar distintos aspectos de la problematica del reconocimiento y la intersubjetividad en las sociedades contemporaneas: el pasaje del reconocimiento de si al reconocimiento mutuo en el psicoanalisis; la contribucion de Hannah Arendt a la espacializacion y temporalizacion de la experiencia politica intersubjetiva; la compleja articulacion teorica entre democracia y ontologia; el rol del reconocimiento y la politica de diagnostico en R.D. Laing; la contribucion especifica de Alexandre Kojeve a la relacion entre historia y reconocimiento; el...
El conjunto de ensayos aqui editados apuntan a capturar distintos aspectos de la problematica del reconocimiento y la intersubjetividad en las socieda...
La inspiracion detras del titulo de esta obra es bien conocida: Poema conjetural, aquella enigmatica reflexion de Borges sobre la muerte de Laprida. Pero que podia significar, para la imaginacion del Laprida imaginado por Borges, tener un destino sudamericano? Es de la imposibilidad de dar una respuesta definitiva a esta pregunta que proviene la fuerza retorica de la frase. Lo que buscamos con esta serie de ensayos y trabajos de investigacion es extender la validez temporal de esta fuerza hasta nuestro presente, es decir, reflexionar, multidisciplinaria y convergentemente, sobre que podria...
La inspiracion detras del titulo de esta obra es bien conocida: Poema conjetural, aquella enigmatica reflexion de Borges sobre la muerte de Laprida. P...
This study uses new arguments to reinvestigate the relation between aesthetics and politics in the contemporary debates on democratic theory and radical democracy.
First, Carl Schmitt and Claude Lefort help delineate the contours of an aesthetico-political understanding of democracy, which is developed further by studying Merleau-Ponty, Ranciere, and Arendt.
The ideas of Merleau-Ponty serve to establish a general "ontological" framework that aims to contest the dominant currents in contemporary democratic theory. It is argued that Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and Ranciere share a...
This study uses new arguments to reinvestigate the relation between aesthetics and politics in the contemporary debates on democratic theory and ra...
