LEADER 03391nam 2200625 450 001 9910789294203321 005 20230803201936.0 010 $a0-674-72760-6 010 $a0-674-72638-3 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674726383 035 $a(CKB)3710000000092387 035 $a(EBL)3301411 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001130227 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11666029 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001130227 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11108832 035 $a(PQKB)11195341 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301411 035 $a(DE-B1597)213450 035 $a(OCoLC)871257279 035 $a(OCoLC)900718961 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674726383 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301411 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10844273 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000092387 100 $a20140320h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDemocracy disfigured $eopinion, truth, and the people /$fNadia Urbinati 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts ;$aLondon, England :$cHarvard University Press,$d2014. 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-674-72513-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tIntroduction --$t1 Democracy's Diarchy --$t2 Unpolitical Democracy --$t3 The Populist Power --$t4 The Plebiscite of the Audience and the Politics of Passivity --$tConclusion --$tNOTES --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tINDEX 330 $aIn Democracy Disfigured, Nadia Urbinati diagnoses the ills that beset the body politic in an age of hyper-partisanship and media monopolies and offers a spirited defense of the messy compromises and contentious outcomes that define democracy. Urbinati identifies three types of democratic disfiguration: the unpolitical, the populist, and the plebiscitarian. Each undermines a crucial division that a well-functioning democracy must preserve: the wall separating the free forum of public opinion from governmental institutions that enact the will of the people. Unpolitical democracy delegitimizes political opinion in favor of expertise. Populist democracy radically polarizes the public forum in which opinion is debated. And plebiscitary democracy overvalues the aesthetic and nonrational aspects of opinion. For Urbinati, democracy entails a permanent struggle to make visible the issues that citizens deem central to their lives. Opinion is thus a form of action as important as the mechanisms that organize votes and mobilize decisions. Urbinati focuses less on the overt enemies of democracy than on those who pose as its friends: technocrats wedded to procedure, demagogues who make glib appeals to "the people," and media operatives who, given their preference, would turn governance into a spectator sport and citizens into fans of opposing teams. 606 $aDemocracy 606 $aDemocracy$xPublic opinion 606 $aPopulism 615 0$aDemocracy. 615 0$aDemocracy$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aPopulism. 676 $a321.8 700 $aUrbinati$b Nadia$f1955-$0140621 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789294203321 996 $aDemocracy disfigured$93721107 997 $aUNINA LEADER 05243nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9911153014703321 005 20260422043711.0 010 $a1-283-16113-3 010 $a9786613161130 010 $a90-04-21421-6 024 7 $a10.1163/ej.9789004194120.i-415 035 $a(CKB)2550000000041878 035 $a(EBL)737717 035 $a(OCoLC)743693772 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000502912 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11326704 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000502912 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10520249 035 $a(PQKB)11136349 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC737717 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004214217 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL737717 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10483813 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL316113 035 $a(PPN)174388748 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000041878 100 $a20110314d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSacred words $eorality, literacy, and religion /$fedited by A.P.M.H. Lardinois, J.H. Blok, M.G.M. van der Poel 210 $aLeiden ;$aBoston $cBrill$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (429 p.) 225 1 $aOrality and literacy in the ancient world ;$vv. 8 225 1 $aMnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;$v332.$x0169-8958 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a90-04-19412-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tPreliminary Material /$rA. Lardinois , J. Blok and M. Van Der Poel --$tIntroduction /$rAndré Lardinois , Josine Blok and Marc Van Der Poel --$t1. The Words Of Gods: Divine Discourse In Homer?s Iliad /$rElizabeth Minchin --$t2. Enter The Divine: Sympotic Performance And Religious Experience /$rFiona Hobden --$t3. Past And Present In Pindar?s Religious Poetry /$rMaria Pavlou --$t4. Euripides, The Derveni Papyrus, And The Smoke Of Many Writings /$rRuth Scodel --$t5. Writing Sacred Laws In Archaic And Classical Crete /$rMichael Gagarin --$t6. Embedded Speech In The Attic Leges Sacrae /$rSarah Hitch --$t7. From Oath-Swearing To Entrenchment Clause: The Introduction Of Atimia-Terminology In Legal Inscriptions /$rEvelyn ?T Van Wout --$t8. ?And You, The Demos, Made An Uproar?: Performance, Mass Audiences And Text In The Athenian Democracy /$rRosalind Thomas --$t9. Hexametrical Incantations As Oral And Written Phenomena /$rChristopher Faraone --$t10. Oral Bricolage And Ritual Context In The Golden Tablets /$rFranco Ferrari --$t11. Greek Hymns From Performance To Stone /$rMark Alonge --$t12. Annales Maximi: Writing, Memory, And Religious Performance In The Roman Republic /$rAna Rodriguez-Mayorgas --$t13. Homer The Prophet: Homeric Verses And Divination In The Homeromanteion /$rAndromache Karanika --$t14. Assuming The Mantle Of The Gods: ?Unknowable Names? And Invocations In Late Antique Theurgic Ritual /$rCrystal Addey --$t15. Plautus The Theologian /$rNiall W. Slater --$t16. Orality In Livy?s Representation Of The Divine: The Construction Of A Polyphonic Narrative /$rVanessa Berger --$t17. Dilemmas Of Pietas In Roman Declamation /$rBé Breij --$t18. Paul The ?Herald? And The ?Teacher?: Paul?s Self-Images Within An Oral Milieu /$rAkio Ito --$t19. Divine Voice, Literary Models, And Human Authority: Peter And Paul In The Early Christian Church /$rJames Morrison --$t20. Singing Together In Church: Augustine?s Psalm Against The Donatists /$rVincent Hunink --$tIndex Of Passages /$rA. Lardinois , J. Blok and M. Van Der Poel --$tIndex Of Subjects /$rA. Lardinois , J. Blok and M. Van Der Poel. 330 $aA prevalent view in the current scholarship on ancient religions holds that state religion was primarily performed and transmitted in oral forms, whereas writing came to be associated with secret, private and marginal cults, especially in the Greek world. In Roman times, religions would have become more and more bookish, starting with the Sibylline books and the Annales Maximi of the Roman priests and culminating in the canonical gospels of the Christians. 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