Dallmayr Fred (Packey J. Dee Professor Of Philosophy And Political Science Packey J. Dee Professor Of Philosophy And Political Science Notre Dame University)
Dallmayr Fred (Packey J. Dee Professor Of Philosophy And Political Science Packey J. Dee Professor Of Philosophy And Political Science Notre Dame University) - Democracy To Come Politics As Relational Praxis - Hardcover
Dallmayr Fred (Packey J. Dee Professor Of Philosophy And Political Science Packey J. Dee Professor Of Philosophy And Political Science Notre Dame University) - Democracy To Come Politics As Relational Praxis - Hardcover
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Description: In this book Fred Dallmayr one of the progenitors of comparative political theory lays the groundwork for a new understanding of modern democracy. Dallmayr rejects the idea that democracy is a stable system that develops primarily through its horizontal spread; most expressly he rejects the idea that democracy can be fostered through regime change and the unidirectional transfer of concepts of popular sovereignty and the public good from the West to autocracies. In fact he argues that a major danger in modern history has been the tendency of Western leaders to appeal to the "will of the people". The "people" are not a fixed entity and by invoking it for example via militant populist movements we go down the road to totalitarianism messianism or millenarianism. Rather than traveling horizontally from one society to others democracy must be relational. Democracy to Come argues that democracy has to be nurtured by different societies and cultures from within with their own resources. In order to provide a model of his vision of democracy Dallmayr challenges the dominant liberal conception anchored in egocentrism voluntarism and individual or collective self - interest and draws from ideas of modern democracy in Latin American / Christian Middle Eastern / Muslim Chinese / Confucianist and Indian / Hindu societies. In turn the book asserts that democracy can never be a finished project but will always be about its potential a democracy to come. It is only in this manner that a general global "ecumene" can come into being. This will be a cosmopolitan community governed not by one force psychology theology or society but by the spirit of equality.
Title: Democracy To Come Politics As Relational Praxis
Author(s): Dallmayr Fred (Packey J. Dee Professor Of Philosophy And Political Science Packey J. Dee Professor Of Philosophy And Political Science Notre Dame University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190670979
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 5/17/2017
Category: Political Structures: Democracy
Description: In this book Fred Dallmayr one of the progenitors of comparative political theory lays the groundwork for a new understanding of modern democracy. Dallmayr rejects the idea that democracy is a stable system that develops primarily through its horizontal spread; most expressly he rejects the idea that democracy can be fostered through regime change and the unidirectional transfer of concepts of popular sovereignty and the public good from the West to autocracies. In fact he argues that a major danger in modern history has been the tendency of Western leaders to appeal to the "will of the people". The "people" are not a fixed entity and by invoking it for example via militant populist movements we go down the road to totalitarianism messianism or millenarianism. Rather than traveling horizontally from one society to others democracy must be relational. Democracy to Come argues that democracy has to be nurtured by different societies and cultures from within with their own resources. In order to provide a model of his vision of democracy Dallmayr challenges the dominant liberal conception anchored in egocentrism voluntarism and individual or collective self - interest and draws from ideas of modern democracy in Latin American / Christian Middle Eastern / Muslim Chinese / Confucianist and Indian / Hindu societies. In turn the book asserts that democracy can never be a finished project but will always be about its potential a democracy to come. It is only in this manner that a general global "ecumene" can come into being. This will be a cosmopolitan community governed not by one force psychology theology or society but by the spirit of equality.
Title: Democracy To Come Politics As Relational Praxis
Author(s): Dallmayr Fred (Packey J. Dee Professor Of Philosophy And Political Science Packey J. Dee Professor Of Philosophy And Political Science Notre Dame University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190670979
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 5/17/2017
Category: Political Structures: Democracy
