Imagined Democracies

Imagined Democracies
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 341
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ISBN-10 : 9781139577069
ISBN-13 : 1139577069
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Book Synopsis Imagined Democracies by : Yaron Ezrahi

Download or read book Imagined Democracies written by Yaron Ezrahi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a revisionist approach to democratic politics. Yaron Ezrahi focuses on the creative unconscious collective imagination that generates ever-changing visions of legitimate power and authority, which compete for enactment and institutionalization in the political arena. If, in the past, political authority was grounded in fictions such as the divine right of kings, the laws of nature, historical determinism and scientism, today the space of democratic politics is filled with multiple alternative social imaginaries of the desirable political order. Exposure to electronic mass media has made contemporary democratic publics more aware that credible popular fictions have greater impact on shaping our political realities than do rational social choices or moral arguments. The pressing political question in contemporary democracy is, therefore, how to select and enact political fictions that promote peace and how to found the political order on checks and balances between alternative political imaginaries of freedom and justice.


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