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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453633603321

Autore

Wenman Mark <1971->

Titolo

Agonistic democracy : constituent power in the era of globalisation / / Mark Wenman, University of Nottingham [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-46049-2

1-139-89032-8

1-316-50538-3

1-107-45888-9

0-511-77715-9

1-107-46470-6

1-107-47182-6

1-107-46817-5

1-107-47284-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 334 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

321.8

Soggetti

Democracy - Philosophy

Political science - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction: agonism and the constituent power -- 1. Agonism: pluralism, tragedy, and the value of conflict -- 2. Democracy: the constituent power as augmentation and/or revolution -- 3. An ethos of agonistic respect: William E. Connolly -- 4. Agonistic struggles for independence: James Tully -- 5. Agonism and the problem of antagonism: Chantal Mouffe -- 6. Agonism and the paradoxes of (re)foundation: Bonnie Honig -- 7. Agonism and militant cosmopolitanism -- Conclusion: agonism after the end of history.

Sommario/riassunto

This pioneering book delivers a systematic account of agonistic democracy, and a much-needed analysis of the core components of agonism: pluralism, tragedy, and the value of conflict. It also traces the history of these ideas, identifying the connections with republicanism and with Greek antiquity. Mark Wenman presents a critical appraisal of



the leading contemporary proponents of agonism and, in a series of well-crafted and comprehensive discussions, brings these thinkers into debate with one another, as well as with the post-structuralist and continental theorists who influence them. Wenman draws extensively on Hannah Arendt, and stresses the creative power of human action as augmentation and revolution. He also reworks Arendt's discussion of reflective judgement to present an alternative style of agonism, one where the democratic contest is linked to the emergence of a militant form of cosmopolitanism, and to prospects for historical change in the context of neoliberal globalisation.