Democracy and the Politics of the Extraordinary Contributor(s): Kalyvas, Andreas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521877687 ISBN-13: 9780521877688 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $115.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
Dewey: 321.8 |
LCCN: 2007033617 |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.35 lbs) 338 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Although the modern age is often described as the age of democratic revolutions, the subject of popular foundings has not captured the imagination of contemporary political thought. Most of the time, democratic theory and political science treat as the object of their inquiry normal politics, institutionalized power, and consolidated democracies. The aim of Andreas Kalyvas' study is to show why it is important for democratic theory to rethink the question of its beginnings. Is there a founding unique to democracies? Can a democracy be democratically established? What are the implications of expanding democratic politics in light of the question of whether and how to address democracy's beginnings? Kalyvas addresses these questions and scrutinizes the possibility of democratic beginnings in terms of the category of the extraordinary, as he reconstructs it from the writings of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt and their views on the creation of new political, symbolic, and constitutional orders. |