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Democracy and subjective rights : democracy without demos / Catherine Colliot-Thélène.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Colliot-Thélène, Catherine, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--Philosophy.
- Democracy.
- Civil rights.
- Citizenship.
- State, The.
- Globalization--Political aspects.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 169 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2018]
- London : Little, Brown, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2018.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This book critically investigates the notion of democracy without demos by unravelling the link that modern history has established between the concepts of democracy and the sovereignty of the people. This task is imposed on us by globalization. The individualization of the subject of rights is the result of the destruction of regimes of special rights of ancient societies by the centralizing action of a territorial power. This individualization, because it implies equality, has created a new form of political subjectivity that has been the driving force of the democratization of democracies during the 19th and 20th centuries. Democracy and subjective rights discusses how asserting itself as the only guarantor of rights, the modern state has also nationalized citizenship. However, the author argues, the legal and judicial monopoly of the nation-state is weakened today by the multiplication and heterogeneity of the powers on which the rights of individuals depend. This situation forces us to denationalize citizenship without sacrificing, however, the specific form of political subjectivity that the individualization of rights has made possible.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Colliot-Thélène, Catherine. Democracy and subjective rights.
- ISBN:
- 9781786605276
- 1786605279
- Publisher Number:
- 99986196220
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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