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Why Democracy?

Why Democracy?

Fairfield, Paul

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0791473163
ISBN13: 9780791473160
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 8 2009
Pages: 173
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

Reexamines the normative justification for democratic politics.

While much of the world now embraces the democratic idea-that the people must rule-the philosophical case for democracy has yet to be made convincingly. Why Democracy? not only reexamines the current debates in normative democratic theory, but also challenges popular conceptions that tend toward an uncritical idealization of popular rule. It is not enough to call for more extensive public deliberation, or for greater participation and inclusion in the democratic process, or for a radical extension of the scope of the process. Making the case for democracy requires examining its imaginative and rhetorical dimensions as well. The democratic idea of rule by the people must be understood less as a definition than as an aspiration, a trope, and the beginning of a narrative that includes, while extending beyond, the domain of government.

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