I Am the People - Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today

Zusatztext Recommended. Informationen zum Autor Partha Chatterjee is a professor of anthropology and of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies at Columbia University. He is the author of more than twenty books, including The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World (Columbia, 2004) and The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power (2012). Klappentext Partha Chatterjee reconsiders the concept of popular sovereignty in order to explain today's dramatic outburst of movements claiming to speak for "the people." To uncover the roots of populism, Chatterjee traces the twentieth-century trajectory of the welfare state and neoliberal reforms. Zusammenfassung Partha Chatterjee reconsiders the concept of popular sovereignty in order to explain today’s dramatic outburst of movements claiming to speak for “the people.” To uncover the roots of populism, Chatterjee traces the twentieth-century trajectory of the welfare state and neoliberal reforms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Even Justice 2. The Cynicism of Power 3. “I Am the People” Afterword: The Optimism of the Intellect Notes Bibliography Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Partha Chatterjee, Partha (Columbia University) Chatterjee, Chatterjee Partha
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780231195485
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19548-5
• Seiten: 208
• Serien: Ruth Benedict Book Series; Ruth Benedict Book Series; Ruth Benedict Book
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Sonstiges; PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory