Democracy May Not Exist, But We'll Miss It When It's Gone

List of contents

Introduction: Living in the Tension
1. Free to Be Winners and Losers (Freedom/Equality)
2. Shouting as One (Conflict/Consensus)
3. Reinventing the People (Inclusion/Exclusion)
4. Choose This, or Else! (Coercion/Choice)
5. Is This What Democracy Looks Like? (Spontaneity/Structure)
6. A Socratic Mob (Expertise/Mass Opinion)
7. New World Order (Local/Global)
8. A Ruin or a Habitation (Present/Future)
Conclusion: From Founding Fathers to
Perennial Midwives
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

About the author

Astra Taylor is the author of The People's Platform (winner of the American Book Award) and made two documentary films, Zizek! and Examined Life. Taylor's writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, n+1, and The Baffler, where she is a contributing editor. She lives in New York City.

Product details

• Authors: Astra Taylor
• Publisher: St. Martins Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2020
• EAN: 9781250231284
• ISBN: 978-1-250-23128-4
• No. of pages: 370
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 208 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 310 g
• Series: Metropolitan
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education