The promise of democracy
Subtitle: political agency and transformation
By: Fred Dallmayr
Publisher: State University of New York Press; SUNY Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781438430393
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The promise of democracy; title: Hegel for our time : negativity and democratic ethos; title: Democratic action and experience : Dewey's "holistic" pragmatism; title: Agency and letting-be : Heidegger on primordial praxis; title: Action in the public realm : Arendt between past and future; title: Postmodernism and radical democracy : Laclau and Mouffe on "hegemony"; title: Jacques Derrida's legacy : "democracy to come"; title: Who are we now? : for an "other" humanism; title: Religion, politics, and Islam : toward multiple modes of democracy; title: Beyond minimal democracy : voices from East and West.