Politics of dialogue : non-consensual democracy and critical community / Leszek Koczanowicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koczanowicz, Leszek, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy.

Physical Description:

vi, 174 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]

Contents:

1 Democracy and Everyday Life 6

1.1 Pragmatism as a Response to the Crisis of Democracy 6

1.2 George Herbert Mead's Concept of Language as Dialogue 8

1.3 George Herbert Mead: the Political, Democracy and Everyday Life 15

1.4 George Herbert Mead; the Self and Democracy -between Conflict and Integration 20

1.5 John Dewey: Individual, Community and Democracy 25

1.6 Conclusion: the Pragmatist Concept of Democracy and its Role in the Contemporary Debate on Democratic Society 32

2 Dialogue, Carnival, Democracy: Mikhail Bakhtin and Political Theory 42

2.1 Politics and Mikhail Bakhtin's Notion of Language 42

2.2 The Utterance as a Unit of Language 45

2.3 Ideology and the Utterance 46

2.4 Understanding and the Utterance 48

2.5 Dialogue, Understanding and the Utterance 51

2.6 Dialogue and the Social 63

2.7 Carnival and Democracy 78

2.8 Conclusion: Dialogue, Carnival and Democracy 85

3 Critical Community 91

3.1 Democracy and Community 91

3.2 Modernity and Community: a Genealogy 93

3.3 Are Liberalism and Community Eternal Enemies? 104

3.4 Communitarian Challenge: Community and Identity 108

3.5 Creation, Self-Creation and Community 112

3.6 Embodied Communities 118

3.7 Critical Community 130

4 Coda: Non-Consensual Democracy as a Political Form of Critical Community 146

4.1 Democratic Community between Consensus and Disagreement 146

4.2 Non-Consensual Democracy: Dialogue, Solidarity and Democratic Politics 154

4.3 Non-Consensual Democracy: Dialogue and Understanding 160

4.4 Non-Consensual Democracy: Culture, Institutions and Understanding 164.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

ebook version

ISBN:

9780748644056

0748644059

OCLC:

899227383