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 we look. From...
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New York :
Metropolitan Books,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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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.
