Contemplative Democracy - Politics, Practice, and Pedagogy

In Contemplative Democracy, Shannon L. Mariotti explores how contemplative practices represent a form of world-building that is valuable for meaningful democracy and an overlooked form of ordinary political theory. Reimagining the work of political theory, employing feminist approaches, and with a focus on educational spaces and democratic modes of pedagogy, Mariotti examines contemplative practices as spaces where ordinary people do the work of democracy, creating new political imaginaries, finding new selves, and founding new states of being. Further, this book reveals how the larger body politic may be reshaped by the everyday work people do in their own bodies.

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction: Contemplative Democracy


• Part One: Theorizing from the Ground Up: A Case Study of The Circle School


• Chapter One: A Contemplative Curriculum


• Chapter Two: A Cooperative Democracy


• Part Two: Connecting Radical Democratic Theory with the Body


• Chapter Three: Zen and the Art of Democracy: Jacques Rancière's Ignorant Schoolmaster and the Zen Master


• Chapter Four: Theodor Adorno's "Democratic Enlightenment," Democratic Pedagogy, and Walking in a More-Than-Human World


• Chapter Five" Leaving "Home" as Democratic Practice: Radical Dharmas and Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands Theory


• Part Three: Educating Theory and Practice


• Chapter Six: Completing Democratic Projects: Commoning, Care Work, Feminism, Abolitionism, and Decoloniality


• Conclusion: Educating Political Theory


• Epilogue: A Politics of Possibility


• Notes


• Index

Product details

• Authors: Shannon L. Mariotti, Shannon L. (Professor of Political Scien Mariotti, Mariotti Shannon L.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2025
• EAN: 9780197795583
• ISBN: 978-0-19-779558-3
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; RELIGION / Buddhism / Rituals & Practice, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives, Buddhism, Political science & theory, Religion & politics, Religion and Politics, Political science and theory