Chapters: The Hatred of Democracy Revisited / What Counts as Democracy? Is Democracy Really what Counts? / The Controversy of Muslim Education in an Austrian Democracy / Universal Choice or Democracy
Four short papers published as chapters in the free eBook, "Problems of Democracy", eds. Nico Bechter and Gabriele De Angelis (Interdisciplinary Press, 2010). Quotes are taken from the abstracts.
Franc Rottiers (Ghent University), "The Hatred of Democracy Revisited" (pp. 11-7): "In his Hatred of Democracy Jacques Rancière defines democracy as a way to have power over two ‘excesses’. On the one hand there is the excess of public participation in democratic life. On the other hand there is the excess of individualistic consumerism. ... By drawing upon Rancière's characterization of democracy, this article will lay out the conditions under which 'control' has emerged as the democratic principle par excellence and explore how exactly this principle limits what it means to be a citizen."
Giuliana Di Biase ("G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara), "What Counts as Democracy? Is Democracy Really what Counts?" (pp. 39-46): "[A]ccording to some political scientists we are living in an age of 'post-democracy', since the ideal of democracy has entered in collision with reality. As a political system of government, democracy was born to put a limit to the absolute power of kings and aristocrats, but today it seems it has become a tool in the hands of new powerful oligarchies that control the global economy".
Cornelia Caseau (Burgundy School of Business), "The Controversy of Muslim Education in an Austrian Democracy" (pp. 131-42): "At the beginning of 2009, a Lebanese researcher living in Vienna, Mouhanad Khorchide, published a dissertation which caused a scandal. Khorchide revealed that 21.9% of Islamic teachers in Austria refuse to teach democratic values because of their incompatibility with Islam."
Mary-Ann Crumplin (Heythrop College), "Universal Choice or Democracy" (pp. 161-8): "In this paper, I argue that our idea of democracy is unthinkable because our ideal of democratic freedom, that is freedom to choose, contains the fundamental paradox which destabilises the very idea of democracy. Political disillusionment is the necessary result of our fidelity to the concept of free choice."
If you don't want to register with the publisher to obtain your free copy of the book, let me know and I'll forward it to you.
Four short papers published as chapters in the free eBook, "Problems of Democracy", eds. Nico Bechter and Gabriele De Angelis (Interdisciplinary Press, 2010). Quotes are taken from the abstracts.
Franc Rottiers (Ghent University), "The Hatred of Democracy Revisited" (pp. 11-7): "In his Hatred of Democracy Jacques Rancière defines democracy as a way to have power over two ‘excesses’. On the one hand there is the excess of public participation in democratic life. On the other hand there is the excess of individualistic consumerism. ... By drawing upon Rancière's characterization of democracy, this article will lay out the conditions under which 'control' has emerged as the democratic principle par excellence and explore how exactly this principle limits what it means to be a citizen."
Giuliana Di Biase ("G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara), "What Counts as Democracy? Is Democracy Really what Counts?" (pp. 39-46): "[A]ccording to some political scientists we are living in an age of 'post-democracy', since the ideal of democracy has entered in collision with reality. As a political system of government, democracy was born to put a limit to the absolute power of kings and aristocrats, but today it seems it has become a tool in the hands of new powerful oligarchies that control the global economy".
Cornelia Caseau (Burgundy School of Business), "The Controversy of Muslim Education in an Austrian Democracy" (pp. 131-42): "At the beginning of 2009, a Lebanese researcher living in Vienna, Mouhanad Khorchide, published a dissertation which caused a scandal. Khorchide revealed that 21.9% of Islamic teachers in Austria refuse to teach democratic values because of their incompatibility with Islam."
Mary-Ann Crumplin (Heythrop College), "Universal Choice or Democracy" (pp. 161-8): "In this paper, I argue that our idea of democracy is unthinkable because our ideal of democratic freedom, that is freedom to choose, contains the fundamental paradox which destabilises the very idea of democracy. Political disillusionment is the necessary result of our fidelity to the concept of free choice."
If you don't want to register with the publisher to obtain your free copy of the book, let me know and I'll forward it to you.
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