Constructivist Turn in Political Representation
Heftet /
2020
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9781474442619
Published
2020-11-03
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Weight
462 gr
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234 mm
Width
156 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
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Engelsk
Format
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Heftet
Number of pages
320
Biographical note
Lisa Disch is Professor of Political Science and teaches political theory at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (US). Author of Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Philosophy (Cornell University Press 1994), The Tyranny of the Two-Party System (Columbia University Press 2002), and co-editor (with Mary Hawkesworth) of the Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory (Oxford University Press 2016), she works on feminist theory, democratic theory, and environmental political theory Mathijs van de Sande teaches political philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen. In 2017, he obtained his PhD at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven with a thesis on the prefigurative repertoire of recent assembly movements, such as Occupy Wall Street. His main research interests are radical democratic theory, political representation, activism and social movement theory. Nadia Urbinati teaches political theory at Columbia University, New York (US). She works on democratic theory, and in particular representative democracy, populism, plebiscitary leadership, post-party representation.
This volume traces the roots of the constructivist turn in the distinct (and competing) traditions of Continental and Anglo-American Western political thought. Divided into three thematic parts, these 13 newly commissioned essays develop the constructivist turn as a central concept. They advance the insight that there can be no democratic politics without representation; constituencies or groups exist as agents of democratic politics only insofar as they are represented.
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This volume traces the roots of the constructivist turn in the distinct (and competing) traditions of Continental and Anglo-American Western political thought. Divided into three thematic parts, these 13 newly commissioned essays advance the insight that there can be no democratic politics without representation.
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1. Introduction: The End of Representative PoliticsLisa Disch
Section OneThe Constructivist Turn: Anglo-American and Continental Intellectual Genealogies
2. Rethinking Representation: Eight Theoretical Issues and a PostscriptDario Castiglione and Mark E. Warren
3. Machiavelli against the Venice Myth: The 16th Century Dialogue on the Nature of Political RepresentationJan Biba
4. Power without Representation is Blind, Representations without Power are EmptyBernard Flynn
5. Two Regimes of the Symbolic: Radical Democracy Between Romanticism and StructuralismWarren Breckman
6. Political Representation: The View From FranceRaf Geenens
7. Democracy and RepresentationClaude Lefort (translated by Greg Conti)
Section TwoThe Constructivist Turn: Normative Challenges
8. Representation as Proposition: Democratic Representation after the Constructivist TurnSamuel Hayat
9. Don Alejandro’s Fantasy: On Representation and Radical DemocracyOliver Marchart
10. Pinning Down RepresentationLasse Thomassen
11. Representative Constructivism’s ConundrumNadia Urbinati
Section ThreeConstructivist Representation: Critique and Reproduction of Power
12. Exploring the Semantics of Constructivist RepresentationAlessandro Mulieri
13. The Improper Politics of RepresentationMark Devenney
14. The Constructivist Paradox: Contemporary Protest Movements and (their) RepresentationMathijs van de Sande.
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Offers comparative accounts of the genealogy of the constructivist turn in the rival intellectual traditions of continental democratic theory and Anglo-American deliberative democracy
Product details
ISBN
9781474442619
Published
2020-11-03
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Weight
462 gr
Height
234 mm
Width
156 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
320