The down-deep delight of democracy /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Purcell, Mark Hamilton
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
• Θέματα: Democracy > History.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.; Democracy.; Electronic books.; History.

Arguing that the hegemony of the neoliberal/capitalist nexus must be challenged if we are to address the proliferating challenges facing our world, this inspiring book explains how democracy can revive the political fortunes of the left. Explores issues central to the civil uprisings that swept the...

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• The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 What Is to Be Done?; The Current Context; Political economy; The continual recurrence of constituent power; Rapid urbanization; Shifting geopolitics; Ecological collapse and environmental disasters; A Methodology of Thought and Practice: Transduction; Plan of the Book; 2 What Democracy Means; A Social Order of Many Souls; Democratic Desires; Lefebvre and autogestion; Deleuze, Guattari, and desire; Hardt, Negri, and the multitude; Laclau, Mouffe, and hegemony; Rancière and politics; Conclusion; 3 Becoming Democratic.
• Perpetual StruggleGramsci's pluralism; Laclau, Mouffe, and the agon; Rancière: recurrent eruptions; Lefebvre: democracy as the struggle for democracy; Deleuze and Guattari: a plane of flows; Conclusion; 4 Becoming Active; Popular Activation; David Foster Wallace; So Then, How?; Coda; 5 Revolutionary Connections; The Ornithology of Collective Action; Gramsci: Beyond Welding; Laclau and Mouffe: Equivalence; Deleuze and Guattari: Relentless Connection; Conclusion; 6 Conclusion; Objections; Transduction; Seek and learn to recognize; Help them endure, and give them space.
• The Down-Deep Delight of DemocracyReferences; Index.