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Author | : Hiroki Azuma |
Publisher | : Kodansha USA |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2014-11-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1941220541 |
Stay informed. Talk about the issues. Always be engaged. Liberal societies have encouraged their members to take part—or at least interest—in politics. Yet, even in developed nations where it is said to work, the democratic process as we know it routinely fails to give voice, on the one hand, and to appeal at all, on the other hand, to a good number of citizens. Whatever countervailing hopes the worldwide web gave rise to in its dawning years, far from restoring the “public sphere” of yore, the internet has completed its fragmentation. According to Japanese thinker Hiroki Azuma, the way forward must be sought through what network technology is actually good at: aggregating and processing the traces we leave (without always meaning to) every time we wade into the world of connectivity. Harking back to Rousseau and his idea of the general will, dropping by Freud and his discovery of the unconscious, taking inspiration from Google and the tenor of its innovations, revisiting Christopher Alexander and his highway planning, and making curious bedfellows of Twitter, Rorty, and Nozick, General Will 2.0 is a wild ride bound to delight not just citizens who “care” but those who find doing so to be increasingly difficult and false.
Author | : James Farr |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 537 |
Release | : 2015-02-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107057019 |
Includes essays by prominent political theorists and philosophers that trace the evolution of the general will from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.
Author | : Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Publisher | : J M Dent & Sons Limited |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780525026600 |
After an old university friend and fellow archeologist's murdered, forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway travels to Lancashire to examine the bones he found, which reveal a shocking fact about King Arthur, and discovers a campus living in fear of a sinister right-wing group called the White Hand.
Author | : Andrew Levine |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-05-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521062282 |
This bold and unabashedly utopian book advances the thesis that Marx's notion of communism is a defensible, normative ideal. However, unlike many others who have written in this area, Levine applies the tools and techniques of analytic philosophy to formulate and defend his radical, political program. The argument proceeds by filtering the ideals and institutions of Marxism through Rousseau's notion of the "general will." Once Rousseau's ideas are properly understood it is possible to construct a community of equals who share some vision of a common good that can be achieved and maintained through cooperation or coordination that is at once both voluntary and authoritative. The book engages with liberal theory in order to establish its differences from Rousseauean-Marxian political theory. This provocative book will be of particular interest to political philosophers and political scientists concerned with Marxism, socialist theory, and democratic theory.
Author | : Joshua Cohen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2010-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199581495 |
Joshua Cohen explains how the values of freedom, equality, and community all work together as parts of the democratic ideal expressed in Rousseau's conception of the 'society of the general will'. He also explores Rousseau's anti-Augustinian and anti-Hobbesian ideas that we are naturally good.
Author | : Thomas Hobbes |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2012-10-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 048612214X |
Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.
Author | : Geneviève Rousselière |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2019-04-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1316517551 |
Explores how republican political thought can make a constructive and distinctive contribution to our understanding of democracy and the challenges it faces.
Author | : Cas Mudde |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2017-01-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0190234881 |
Populism is a central concept in the current media debates about politics and elections. However, like most political buzzwords, the term often floats from one meaning to another, and both social scientists and journalists use it to denote diverse phenomena. What is populism really? Who are the populist leaders? And what is the relationship between populism and democracy? This book answers these questions in a simple and persuasive way, offering a swift guide to populism in theory and practice. Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser present populism as an ideology that divides society into two antagonistic camps, the "pure people" versus the "corrupt elite," and that privileges the general will of the people above all else. They illustrate the practical power of this ideology through a survey of representative populist movements of the modern era: European right-wing parties, left-wing presidents in Latin America, and the Tea Party movement in the United States. The authors delve into the ambivalent personalities of charismatic populist leaders such as Juan Domingo Péron, H. Ross Perot, Jean-Marie le Pen, Silvio Berlusconi, and Hugo Chávez. If the strong male leader embodies the mainstream form of populism, many resolute women, such as Eva Péron, Pauline Hanson, and Sarah Palin, have also succeeded in building a populist status, often by exploiting gendered notions of society. Although populism is ultimately part of democracy, populist movements constitute an increasing challenge to democratic politics. Comparing political trends across different countries, this compelling book debates what the long-term consequences of this challenge could be, as it turns the spotlight on the bewildering effect of populism on today's political and social life.
Author | : Thom Brooks |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780754624417 |
Jean-Jaques Rousseau stands as one of the most influential figures in the history of philosophy. Rousseau and Law presents for the first time in one collection the most important contemporary work exploring his many contributions to legal theory.
Author | : James Farr |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 537 |
Release | : 2015-02-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1316240339 |
Although it originated in theological debates, the general will ultimately became one of the most celebrated and denigrated concepts emerging from early modern political thought. Jean-Jacques Rousseau made it the central element of his political theory, and it took on a life of its own during the French Revolution, before being subjected to generations of embrace or opprobrium. James Farr and David Lay Williams have collected for the first time a set of essays that track the evolving history of the general will from its origins to recent times. The General Will: The Evolution of a Concept discusses the general will's theological, political, formal, and substantive dimensions with a careful eye toward the concept's virtues and limitations as understood by its expositors and critics, among them Arnauld, Pascal, Malebranche, Leibniz, Locke, Spinoza, Montesquieu, Kant, Constant, Tocqueville, Adam Smith and John Rawls.