Democracy may not exist, but we'll miss it when it's gone /
"What is democracy, really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist? Astra Taylor, hailed as a 'New Civil Rights Leader' by the Los Angeles Times, provides surprising answers. There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, yet it is in crisis everywhere...
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New York, New York :
Metropolitan Books,
[2019]
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| ISBN: | 9781250179845 125017984X |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Living in the tension
- Free to be winners and losers (freedom/equality)
- Shouting as one (conflict/consensus)
- Reinventing the people (inclusion/exclusion)
- Choose this, or else! (coercion/choice)
- Is this what democracy looks like? (spontaneity/structure)
- A Socratic mob (expertise/mass opinion)
- New world order (local/global)
- A ruin or a habitation (present/future)
- Conclusion: From Founding Fathers to perennial midwives.