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
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781474442619
Publisert
2020-11-03
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Vekt
462 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320