LEADER 04664nam 22007574a 450 001 9910815584403321 005 20240516154429.0 010 $a0-231-51112-4 024 7 $a10.7312/mcaf13880 035 $a(CKB)2550000000018597 035 $a(EBL)908441 035 $a(OCoLC)818855948 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483801 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11338876 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483801 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10573468 035 $a(PQKB)11478891 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908441 035 $a(DE-B1597)459108 035 $a(OCoLC)1013953817 035 $a(OCoLC)1037969735 035 $a(OCoLC)1041977141 035 $a(OCoLC)1045524019 035 $a(OCoLC)979831919 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231511124 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908441 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10387032 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL549374 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000018597 100 $a20070702d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDemocracy and the political unconscious /$fNoe?lle McAfee 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 225 1 $aNew directions in critical theory 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-13880-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [219]-225) and index. 327 $aThe political unconscious -- Modernity's traumas -- Targeting the public sphere -- The repetition compulsion or the endless war on terror -- Recovering community -- Deliberative democracy -- Feminist theory, politics, and freedom -- Public knowledge -- Three models of democratic deliberation -- The limits of deliberation, democratic myths, new frontiers -- Media and the public sphere -- Epilogue. 330 $aPolitical philosopher Noëlle McAfee proposes a powerful new political theory for our post-9/11 world, in which an old pathology-the repetition compulsion-has manifested itself in a seemingly endless war on terror. McAfee argues that the quintessentially human desire to participate in a world with others is the key to understanding the public sphere and to creating a more democratic society, a world that all members can have a hand in shaping. But when some are effectively denied this participation, whether through trauma or terror, instead of democratic politics, there arises a political unconscious, an effect of desires unarticulated, failures to sublimate, voices kept silent, and repression reenacted. Not only is this condition undemocratic and unjust, it may lead to further trauma. Unless its troubles are worked through, a political community risks continual repetition and even self-destruction.McAfee deftly weaves together her experience as an observer of democratic life with an array of intellectual schemas, from poststructural psychoanalysis to Rawlsian and Habermasian democratic theories, as well as semiotics, civic republicanism, and American pragmatism. She begins with an analysis of the traumatic effects of silencing members of a political community. Then she explores the potential of deliberative dialogue and other "talking cures" and public testimonies, such as the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to help societies work through, rather than continually act out, their conflicts. Democracy and the Political Unconscious is rich in theoretical insights, but it is also grounded in the practical problems of those who are trying to process the traumas of oppression, terror, and brutality and create more decent and democratic societies. Drawing on a breathtaking range of theoretical frameworks and empirical observations, Democracy and the Political Unconscious charts a course for democratic transformation in a world sorely lacking in democratic practice. 410 0$aNew directions in critical theory. 606 $aDemocratization 606 $aDeliberative democracy 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 606 $aPolitical psychology 606 $aCritical theory 606 $aFeminism$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aDemocratization. 615 0$aDeliberative democracy. 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPolitical psychology. 615 0$aCritical theory. 615 0$aFeminism$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a321.8 700 $aMcAfee$b Noe?lle$f1960-$01623117 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815584403321 996 $aDemocracy and the political unconscious$93957331 997 $aUNINA