Democracy without politics
By: Steven Bilakovics
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780674058224
Subjects: Philosophy; Democracy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: democracy as self-subverting; title: "More than kings yet less than men": Tocqueville on the new extremes of democratic society; title: Civilization without the discontents: Tocqueville on democracy as the social state of nature; title: The regime of revolution: Claude Lefort on history, nature, and convention after the democratic revolution; title: Political phoenix: Sheldon Wolin on the limits and limitlessness of democracy; title: Conclusion: post-politics: society without argument.