Counter-Democracy
Subtitle: Politics in an Age of Distrust
Contributors: Goldhammer, Arthur
Series: The Seeley Lectures, 7; Seeley Lectures, 7
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780511463600
Subjects: Legitimacy of governments; Political participation; Democracy
Description: The latest contribution to one of the most distinguished and important series in political thought in the world.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; The society of distrust; The three dimensions of counter-democracy; The myth of the passive citizen; Depoliticization or the unpolitical?; Reinterpreting the history of democracy; Part 1 Overseeing democracy; 1 Vigilance, denunciation, evaluation; 2 The overseers; 3 The thread of history; 4 Legitimacy conflicts; Part 2 The sovereignty of prevention; 5 From the right of resistance to complex sovereignty; 6 Self-critical democracies; 7 Negative politics; Part 3 The people as judge; 8 Historical references.