Thinking About Democracy in Turbulent Times

Sorbonne Lectures

John Keane (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2025
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-4519-8 (ISBN)

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The era when theorists could urge democrats to whistle their way through the world with an air of 'philosophical superficiality and light-mindedness' (Richard Rorty) is over. In a period of mounting global anxiety and widespread political unrest about democracy’s future, the moment has come for more thinking about thinking, and for considering the surprising connections between thinking and democracy. This book provocatively encourages readers to pose afresh key questions - what does it mean to think about democracy, and what exactly is thinking? – and offers them real-world examples of how in these troubled times adventurous thinking about democracy can contribute in practice to new ways of rejuvenating its spirit and substance. Running through the pages of this assemblage of lectures is a passionate belief that in these troubled times democracy – popular self-government and a whole way of life committed to the non-violent refusal of arbitrary power - remains an indispensable planetary ideal.

John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. Thinking is for Everyone
2. Living With Uncertainty
3. Reimagining Civil Society
4. Democracy on Earth
5. How Democracies Die, Fast and Slow

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.05.2025
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-3995-4519-1 / 1399545191
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-4519-8 / 9781399545198
Zustand	Neuware