Agonistic democracy : constituent power in the era of globalisation / Mark Wenman, University of Nottingham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wenman, Mark, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Philosophy.

Democracy.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 334 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This pioneering book delivers a systematic account of agonistic democracy, and a much-needed analysis of the core components of agonism: pluralism, tragedy, and the value of conflict. It also traces the history of these ideas, identifying the connections with republicanism and with Greek antiquity. Mark Wenman presents a critical appraisal of the leading contemporary proponents of agonism and, in a series of well-crafted and comprehensive discussions, brings these thinkers into debate with one another, as well as with the post-structuralist and continental theorists who influence them. Wenman draws extensively on Hannah Arendt, and stresses the creative power of human action as augmentation and revolution. He also reworks Arendt's discussion of reflective judgement to present an alternative style of agonism, one where the democratic contest is linked to the emergence of a militant form of cosmopolitanism, and to prospects for historical change in the context of neoliberal globalisation.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction: agonism and the constituent power

1. Agonism: pluralism, tragedy, and the value of conflict

2. Democracy: the constituent power as augmentation and/or revolution

3. An ethos of agonistic respect: William E. Connolly

4. Agonistic struggles for independence: James Tully

5. Agonism and the problem of antagonism: Chantal Mouffe

6. Agonism and the paradoxes of (re)foundation: Bonnie Honig

7. Agonism and militant cosmopolitanism

Conclusion: agonism after the end of history.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-46049-2

1-139-89032-8

1-316-50538-3

1-107-45888-9

0-511-77715-9

1-107-46470-6

1-107-47182-6

1-107-46817-5

1-107-47284-9

OCLC:

862614368