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The constructivist turn in political representation / edited by Lisa Disch, Mathijs van de Sande and Nadia Urbinati.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Disch, Lisa, Author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh scholarship online.
- Edinburgh scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--Philosophy.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- This volume traces the roots of the constructivist turn in the distinct (and competing) traditions of Continental and Anglo-American Western political thought. Divided into three thematic parts, these essays advance the insight that there can be no democratic politics without representation.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: the end of representative politics?
- Part I: The constructivist turn: Anglo-American and Continental intellectual genealogies
- 2. Rethinking democratic representation: eight theoretical issues and a postscript
- 3. Machiavelli against the Venice myth: a sixteenthcentury dialogue on the nature of political representation
- 4. Power without representation is blind, representations without power are empty
- 5. Two regimes of the symbolic: radical democracy between Romanticism and structuralism
- 6. Political representation: the view from France
- 7. Democracy and representation
- Part II: The constructivist turn: normative challenges
- 8. Representation as proposition: democratic representation after the constructivist turn
- 9. Don Alejandro’s fantasy: radical democracy and the negative concept of representation
- 10. Pinning down representation
- 11. Representative constructivism’s conundrum
- Part III: Constructivist representation: critique and reproduction of power
- 12. Exploring the semantics of constructivist representation
- 13. The improper politics of representation
- 14. The constructivist paradox: contemporary protest movements and (their) representation
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781474442626
- 1474442625
- 9781474459860
- 1474459862
- OCLC:
- 1312727178
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