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The promise of democracy [electronic resource] : political agency and transformation / Fred Dallmayr

Author
Dallmayr, Fred R. (Fred Reinhard), 1928-
Published
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2010.
Physical Description
xv, 254 p. ; 24 cm.
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Contents
Introduction : the promise of democracy -- Hegel for our time : negativity and democratic ethos -- Democratic action and experience : Dewey's "holistic" pragmatism -- Agency and letting-be : Heidegger on primordial praxis -- Action in the public realm : Arendt between past and future -- Postmodernism and radical democracy : Laclau and Mouffe on "hegemony" -- Jacques Derrida's legacy : "democracy to come" -- Who are we now? : for an "other" humanism -- Religion, politics, and Islam : toward multiple modes of democracy -- Beyond minimal democracy : voices from East and West.
Summary
"A new ethical concept of democracy as the cultivation and practice of civic virtues in a pluralistic setting is presented in this thoughtful and wide-ranging study. Drawing upon such figures as Aristotle, Montesquieu, Hegel, Dewey, Heidegger, Arendt, and Lefort, Fred Dallmayr emphasizes the need for civic education and practical-ethical engagement in all societies aspiring to be democratic. With reference to Middle Eastern societies and especially Iran, Dallmayr explores the possible compatibility between democracy and Islamic faith. In a similar vein, he discusses the strengths of Gandhian and Confucian democracy as possible correctives to current versions of "minimalist" democracy and the cult of laissez-faire liberalism and neoliberalism." "Addressing how to instill a democratic ethos in societies where corporations and elites exercise a great deal of power, The Promise of Democracy presents an inspired vision of democracy as popular "self-rule" in which ethical cultivation and self-transformation make possible a nondomineering kind of political agency. Against this background, Dallmayr casts democracy as a "promise," making room for the unlimited horizons opened up by a new understanding of liberty and equality."--BOOK JACKET.
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ISBN
9781438430393 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1438430396 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-245) and index.
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