Democracy in Spite of the Demos: From Arendt to the Frankfurt School - Reinventing Critical Theory

Informationen zum Autor Larry Alan Busk is Lecturer at California State University, Stanislaus. His work has appeared in such journals as Philosophy Today, Radical Philosophy Review, and Constellations. Klappentext The book calls into the question the critical value of the concept of "democracy" at a time characterized by the rise of Right-wing populist movements and the persistence of pathological political beliefs (such as climate skepticism). Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceChapter 1: The Categorical Imperative of DemocracyChapter 2: Arendt's Island of FreedomChapter 3: Radical Democracy at its Limits: Rancière, Mouffe, and LaclauChapter 4: From False Democracy to False Demos: Adorno, Marcuse, and Climate SkepticismChapter 5: What is Elitism?BibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Larry Alan Busk
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781786615251
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-525-1
• Series: Print on demand; Reinventing Critical Theory
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Political science and theory