Reconstructing Democracy

2020-03-03 Philosophy

Author : Charles Taylor
Release : 2020-03-03
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Reconstructing Democracy written by Charles Taylor. This book was released on 2020-03-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An urgent manifesto for the reconstruction of democratic belonging in our troubled times.” —Davide Panagia Across the world, democracies are suffering from a disconnect between the people and political elites. In communities where jobs and industry are scarce, many feel the government is incapable of understanding their needs or addressing their problems. The resulting frustration has fueled the success of destabilizing demagogues. To reverse this pattern and restore responsible government, we need to reinvigorate democracy at the local level. But what does that mean? Drawing on examples of successful community building in cities large and small, from a shrinking village in rural Austria to a neglected section of San Diego, Reconstructing Democracy makes a powerful case for re-engaging citizens. It highlights innovative grassroots projects and shows how local activists can form alliances and discover their own power to solve problems.

Reconstructing Democracy

2015 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Justin Behrend
Release : 2015
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 332/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Democracy written by Justin Behrend. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within a few short years after emancipation, freedpeople of the Natchez District created a new democracy in the Reconstruction era, replacing the oligarchic rule of slaveholders and Confederates with a grassroots democracy that transformed the South after the Civil War.

Reconstructing Democracy

2020 Philosophy

Author : Charles Taylor
Release : 2020
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 621/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Reconstructing Democracy by : Charles Taylor

Download or read book Reconstructing Democracy written by Charles Taylor. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An urgent manifesto for the reconstruction of democratic belonging in our troubled times." --Davide Panagia Across the world, democracies are suffering from a disconnect between the people and political elites. In communities where jobs and industry are scarce, many feel the government is incapable of understanding their needs or addressing their problems. The resulting frustration has fueled the success of destabilizing demagogues. To reverse this pattern and restore responsible government, we need to reinvigorate democracy at the local level. But what does that mean? Drawing on examples of successful community building in cities large and small, from a shrinking village in rural Austria to a neglected section of San Diego, Reconstructing Democracy makes a powerful case for re-engaging citizens. It highlights innovative grassroots projects and shows how local activists can form alliances and discover their own power to solve problems.

Reconstructing Public Reason

2004-12-30 Philosophy

Author : Eric MacGilvray
Release : 2004-12-30
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 425/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Public Reason written by Eric MacGilvray. This book was released on 2004-12-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MacGilvray argues that we should shift our attention away from the problem of identifying uncontroversial public ends in the present and toward the problem of evaluating potentially controversial public ends through collective inquiry over time.

Reconstructing the Roman Republic

2010-04-11 History

Author : Karl-J. Hölkeskamp
Release : 2010-04-11
Genre : History
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Download or read book Reconstructing the Roman Republic written by Karl-J. Hölkeskamp. This book was released on 2010-04-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, scholars have argued that the Roman Republic's political culture was essentially democratic in nature, stressing the central role of the 'sovereign' people and their assemblies. Karl-J. Hölkeskamp challenges this view in Reconstructing the Roman Republic, warning that this scholarly trend threatens to become the new orthodoxy, and defending the position that the republic was in fact a uniquely Roman, dominantly oligarchic and aristocratic political form. Hölkeskamp offers a comprehensive, in-depth survey of the modern debate surrounding the Roman Republic. He looks at the ongoing controversy first triggered in the 1980s when the 'oligarchic orthodoxy' was called into question by the idea that the republic's political culture was a form of Greek-style democracy, and he considers the important theoretical and methodological advances of the 1960s and 1970s that prepared the ground for this debate. Hölkeskamp renews and refines the 'elitist' view, showing how the republic was a unique kind of premodern city-state political culture shaped by a specific variant of a political class. He covers a host of fascinating topics, including the Roman value system; the senatorial aristocracy; competition in war and politics within this aristocracy; and the symbolic language of public rituals and ceremonies, monuments, architecture, and urban topography. Certain to inspire continued debate, Reconstructing the Roman Republic offers fresh approaches to the study of the republic while attesting to the field's enduring vitality.

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