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Author Wenman, Mark, 1971-

Title Agonistic democracy : constituent power in the era of globalisation / Mark Wenman.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (354 pages)
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Preface: politics in a new century; Part I: Introduction: agonism and the constituent power; 1. Agonism: pluralism, tragedy, and the value of conflict; 2. Democracy: the constituent power as augmentation and/or revolution; Part II: 3. William E. Connolly: an ethos of agonistic respect; 4. James Tully: agonistic struggles for independence; 5. Chantal Mouffe: agonism and the problem of antagonism; 6. Bonnie Honig: agonism and the paradoxes of (re)foundation; Part III: 7. Agonism and militant cosmopolitanism; Conclusion: agonism after the end of history.
Summary "This pioneering book delivers a systematic account of agonistic democracy, and a much-needed analysis of the core components of agonism: pluralism, tragedy, and the value of conflict. It also traces the history of these ideas, identifying the connections with republicanism and with Greek antiquity. Mark Wenman presents a critical appraisal of the leading contemporary proponents of agonism and, in a series of well-crafted and comprehensive discussions, brings these thinkers into debate with one-another, as well as with the post-structuralist and continental theorists who influence them. Wenman draws extensively on Hannah Arendt, and stresses the creative power of human action as augmentation and revolution. He also reworks Arendt's discussion of reflective judgement to present an alternative style of agonism, one where the democratic contest is linked to the emergence of a militant form of cosmopolitanism, and to prospects for historical change in the context of neoliberal globalisation"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Democracy -- Philosophy.
Political science -- Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Wenman, Mark. Agonistic democracy : constituent power in the era of globalisation. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013 xvii, 334 pages 9781107003729 (DLC) 2013017441
ISBN 9781107003729 (hardback)
9781107468177 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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