What Is Democracy?

Touraine, Alain/ Macey, David

Routledge（2019/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 240 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367313944
• DDC分類 321.8

Full Description

In this sequel to A Critique of Modernity, Alain Touraine questions the social and cultural content of democracy today. At a time when state power is being increasingly eroded by the economic might of transnational capital, what possible value can we ascribe to a democratic idea that is defined merely as a set of guarantees against the totalitarian

Contents

Introduction -- Part 1: The Three Dimensions of Democracy -- A New Idea -- Human Rights, Representation, and Citizenship -- Limitations on Power -- Representative Political Actors -- Citizenship -- Part 2: A History of the Modern Democratic Spirit -- Republicans and Liberals -- Opening Up a Public Space -- Part 3: Democratic Culture -- The Politics of the Subject -- Recomposing the World -- Part 4: Democracy and Development -- Modernization or Development? -- Transforming Old into New -- Democratization in the East and the South? -- Conclusion