Against The Personification Of Democracy
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Against The Personification Of Democracy
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Author : Wesley C. Swedlow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Against The Personification Of Democracy written by Wesley C. Swedlow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Political science categories.
Against The Personification Of Democracy
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Author : Wesley C. Swedlow
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2011-12-22
Against The Personification Of Democracy written by Wesley C. Swedlow and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-22 with Political Science categories.
Against the Personification of Democracy offers a new theory of political subjectivity that puts the dilemma of desire into the forefront. By using Lacan to read key figures in political philosophy, the book demonstrates why democratic theory -- representative or radical - is not only ineffective when it comes to the best form of political cohabitation, but also productive of destructive and self-defeating forces. The book begins with the debate between Hobbesian and Lockeian notions of subjectivity to argue that the nature of political subjectivity is a function of the problem of desire. It then considers the question of the proper structure of political cohabitation in light of Hannah Arendt's insights into what happened to the stateless in World War II, leading to a distinction between the person in a bare and unadorned form and the public persona that is represented in most forms of democracy. Lacan is used to reread the question of political subjectivity, but, unlike radical democratic theory, the book argues against agonistic, representative, and thus endless democracy. Such a political formation is seen as an instigation and ultimate disappointment to desire (the persona), which leads to general negative outcomes, including genocide, concentration camps, and the removal of rights. Arguing against Zizek's proposal that a radical Act can save us politically, the book proposes a universal political formation as the only way out of the dilemma of political desire. This formation is not dependent on public personas, but rooted in actual persons meeting in their locality and sovereign to no one. An indispensable text for anyone interested in political theory, political philosophy, and democratic theory, Against the Personification of Democracy critiques positive theories of sovereignty through its analysis of political subjectivity and the problem of desire. More importantly, it provides a truly universal theory of democratic cohabitation that escapes political desire and thus the scapegoats of democratic failure, not to mention the anxiety of the impossibility of the democratic promise.
Polis And Personification In Classical Athenian Art
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Author : Amy C. Smith
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-06-22
Polis And Personification In Classical Athenian Art written by Amy C. Smith and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-22 with Art categories.
Ancient Greek artists pioneered in the allegorical use of personifications of political ideas, events, places, institutions, and peoples in visual arts. This book surveys and interprets these personifications within the intellectual and political climate of the golden age of Athens.
A Cultural History Of Democracy In Antiquity
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Author : Paul Cartledge
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-12-15
A Cultural History Of Democracy In Antiquity written by Paul Cartledge and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-15 with History categories.
This volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of ancient societies throughout Antiquity. It examines the experiences of those living in democratic communities and considers how ancient practices of democracy differ from our own. The origins of democracy can be traced in a general way to the earliest civilizations, beginning with the early urban societies of the Middle East, and can be seen in cities and communities across the Mediterranean world and Asia. In classical Athens, male citizens enjoyed full participation in the political life of the city and a flourishing democratic culture, as explored in detail in this volume. In other times and places democratic features were absent from the formal structures of regimes, but could still be found in the participatory structures of local social institutions. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: sovereignty; liberty and the rule of law; the “common good”; economic and social democracy; religion and the principles of political obligation; citizenship and gender; ethnicity, race, and nationalism; democratic crises, revolutions, and civil resistance; international relations; and beyond the polis. These ten different approaches to democracy in Antiquity add up to an extensive, synoptic coverage of the subject.
Anomia Or Liberalism And Its Napoleonic Messiah Comprising Facts From Cotemporaneous History In Identification Of The Principles Person And Kingdom Of Antichrist As Foreshadowed In The Divine Word By D Etc
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
Anomia Or Liberalism And Its Napoleonic Messiah Comprising Facts From Cotemporaneous History In Identification Of The Principles Person And Kingdom Of Antichrist As Foreshadowed In The Divine Word By D Etc written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with categories.
The Concept Of Liberal Democratic Law
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Author : Johan van Der Walt
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-09-12
The Concept Of Liberal Democratic Law written by Johan van Der Walt and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-12 with History categories.
This book develops a historical concept of liberal democratic law through readings of the pivotal twentieth century legal theoretical positions articulated in the work of Herbert Hart, Ronald Dworkin, Duncan Kennedy, Rudolf Smend, Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt. It assesses the jurisprudential projects and positions of these theorists against the background of a long history of European metaphysics from which the modern concept of liberal democratic law emerged. Two key narratives are central to this history of European political and legal metaphysics. Both concern the historical development of the concept of nomos that emerged in early Greek legal and political thought. The first concerns the history of philosophical reflection on the epistemological and ontological status of legal concepts that runs from Plato to Hobbes (the realist-nominalist debate as it became known later). The second concerns the history of philosophical and political discourses on law, sovereignty and justice that starts with the nomos-physis debate in fifth century Athens and runs through medieval, modern and twentieth century conceptualisations of the relationship between law and power. Methodologically, the reading of the legal theoretical positions of Hart, Dworkin, Kennedy, Smend, Kelsen and Schmitt articulated in this book is presented as a distillation process that extracts the pure elements of liberal democratic law from the metaphysical narratives that not only cradled it, but also smothered and distorted its essential aspirations. Drawing together key insights from across the fields of jurisprudence and philosophy, this book offers an important and original re-articulation of the concept of democratic law.
Anomia Or Liberalism And Its Napoleonic Messiah By Dionysius
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Author : Thomas Dennis Rock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
Anomia Or Liberalism And Its Napoleonic Messiah By Dionysius written by Thomas Dennis Rock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with categories.
Handbook Of International Relations
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Author : Walter Carlsnaes
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2002-03-13
Handbook Of International Relations written by Walter Carlsnaes and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-13 with Political Science categories.
NEW IN PAPERBACK FEBRUARY 2005! `The most systematic and wide-ranging survey of the multi-faceted field of International Relations yet produced. It is sure to become a standard reference work and teaching text, and is unlikely to be superseded at any time in the near future. It should be considered as essential reading' - International Affairs The Handbook of International Relations, published 2002 in hardback, quickly established itself as the benchmark volume, providing a state-of-the-art review and indispensable guide to the study of international relations. It is now released in paperback, in order to be accessible to students in classroom use. Divided into three parts, the volume reviews both the historical, philosophical, analytical and normative roots to the discipline and the key contemporary topics of research and debate today. The first part introduces the major approaches within the field and unpacks many of the on-going debates within the discipline including those between rationalist and constructivist approaches. The second part moves on to explore the key concepts and contextual factors important to the subject from concepts like the state and power, to international and transnational actors, debates around globalization, and contending feminist perspectives. The final part reviews a number of the key substantive issues in international relations and is designed to complement the analytical tools and perspectives presented in Parts I and II. Examples of the many topics included are: foreign policy; war and peace; security; nationalism and ethnicity; finance; trade; development; the environment; and human rights.
Persuasion And Compulsion In Democracy
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Author : Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2013
Persuasion And Compulsion In Democracy written by Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Philosophy categories.
This collection of essays focuses on the roles that coercion and persuasion should play in contemporary democratic political systems or societies. A number of the authors advocate new approaches to this question, offering various critiques of the dominant classical liberalism views of political justification, freedom, tolerance and the political subject. A major concern is with the conversational character of democracy. Given the problematic and ambiguous status of the many differences present in contemporary society, the authors seek to alert us to the danger, that an emphasis on reasonable consensus will conceal exclusion in practice of some contending positions. The voices of vulnerable peoples can be unconsciously or even deliberately silenced by various institutional processes and operating procedures and a strong media influence can change the tenor of conversations and even lead to deception. To counter these factors, a number of the essays, in differing ways, urge the fostering of local community conversations or democratic agoras so that democratic debate and conversation might maintain the vitality necessary to a strong democratic system.
Epigraphy Of Art
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Author : Dimitrios Yatromanolakis
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2016-12-31
Epigraphy Of Art written by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-31 with Social Science categories.
Ancient Greek vase-paintings offer broad-ranging and unprecedented early perspectives on the often intricate interplay of images and texts. This book investigates both epigraphic technicalities of Attic and non-Attic inscriptions, and their broader, iconographic and sociocultural, significance.