The promise of democracy : political agency and transformation / Fred Dallmayr.

Author/Creator:

Dallmayr, Fred R. (Fred Reinhard), 1928-

Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2010.

Format/Description:

Book
xv, 254 p. ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

Democracy.
Democracy -- Philosophy.

Contents:

Introduction : the promise of democracy
Hegel for our time : negativity and democratic ethos
Democratic action and experience : Dewey's "holistic" pragmatism
Agency and letting-be : Heidegger on primordial praxis
Action in the public realm : Arendt between past and future
Postmodernism and radical democracy : Laclau and Mouffe on "hegemony"
Jacques Derrida's legacy : "democracy to come"
Who are we now? : for an "other" humanism
Religion, politics, and Islam : toward multiple modes of democracy
Beyond minimal democracy : voices from East and West.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438430393 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1438430396 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

354854391

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