Democracy and the political unconscious
By: Noëlle McAfee.
Series: New directions in critical theory
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231138802
Subjects: Democratization; Deliberative democracy; Political science -- Philosophy; Political psychology; Critical theory; Feminism -- Political aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The political unconscious; title: Modernity's traumas; title: Targeting the public sphere; title: The repetition compulsion or the endless war on terror; title: Recovering community; title: Deliberative democracy; title: Feminist theory, politics, and freedom; title: Public knowledge; title: Three models of democratic deliberation; title: The limits of deliberation, democratic myths, new frontiers; title: Media and the public sphere; title: Epilogue.