'Can Democracy Recover?' explores the roots of the contemporary democratic crisis. It scrutinizes the evolution and subsequent fragmentation of modern political epistemology, highlighting citizens increasing inability to make sense of the political universe in which they live, their loss o...

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Hauptverfasser:	ʿEzrāḥî, Yārôn 1940-2019 (VerfasserIn), Blander, Danah ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2025
Schlagworte:	Democracy / Philosophy Democracy / Western countries Political culture / Western countries
Online-Zugang:	DE-12 DE-473 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	'Can Democracy Recover?' explores the roots of the contemporary democratic crisis. It scrutinizes the evolution and subsequent fragmentation of modern political epistemology, highlighting citizens increasing inability to make sense of the political universe in which they live, their loss of confidence in political causality, distinguishing facts from fiction and objective from partisan attitudes. The book culminates in a speculative discourse on democracy's uncertain future. This work is the final part in Yaron Ezrahi's trilogy. The first, 'The Descent of Icarus' (1990), explored the scientific revolution's role in shaping modern democracy. The second, 'Imagined Democracies' (2012), examined the collective political imagination's impact on the rise and fall of political regimes, emphasizing the modern partnership between science and democracy. 'Can Democracy Recover?' traces the political implications of the erosion of the Nature-Culture dichotomy, the bedrock of modernity's cosmological imagination, and anticipates the emergence of new political imaginaries
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025) Nature as the transcendental imaginary of modern secular society : preliminary considerations -- The rise of the Western nature/culture dualistic cosmology from a comparative perspective -- Risks and opportunities inherent in the unstable demarcation lines between nature and culture -- The imaginary of the modern democratic individual as a political agency -- Democratic political causality -- Public facts as political currency -- The visibility and accountability of political power -- Objectivity as a fictional limit of the political -- The objectifying gaze of science and technology in the political context -- Economics as politics by other means -- The virtual objectification of the law -- The political disempowerment of the modern democratic citizen -- The elusiveness of political causality -- The loss of self-evident public facts and the crisis of the common-sense conceptions of reality -- The decay of the epistemological norm of political visibility -- The fall of objectivity and objectification -- Early modernizers of politics -- Modern critics of democracy -- Can democracy recover : concluding reflections -- Epilogue : "Depth skepticism" and the roots of democratic crisis
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 254 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781009350907
DOI:	10.1017/9781009350907