... around the political ideas of disobedience, resistance, and revolution. The final section attempts to reconstruct the discursive rules and immanent principles that organize the intelligibility of the concept over time and consider the challenges they pose to inherited (mis)understandings of democracy...

...As soon as justification—and hence judgment and dejustification—are seen as more primary than legitimacy, we can argue that agonistic democracy is the form that precedes any particular formation of political regimes. I call this political insight agonistic monism. agonistic democracy Nicole Loraux...

...This chapter uses comedy to explore the relevance of friendship to contemporary democratic theory. It begins with Jacques Derrida's discussion of friendship in relation to the democracy to come. It demonstrates how the companionships of romantic comedy often serve as miniature form of democracy...

...This chapter examines liberal Catholicism and its role on the life of Peter Steinfels. It argues that liberal Catholicism is, in fact, a controverted and approximate label. Its history overlaps with that of Christian Democracy, social Catholicism, and modernism. The chapter notes that liberal...

...What do citizens of 21st-century democracies value so very highly about generational groups? What leads us to judge attacks on them so wrong and makes us argue that our governments or international institutions have a responsibility to intervene violently to prevent or punish genocidal attacks...

...Only when we pay attention to the problems that generational being creates for democracy will we be ready to build antigenocidal democracies. It means 1) envisioning democracy as the scene for the expression of many temporalities, 2) taking on the theoretical work of understanding the relation...

...Derrida’s later work is marked by an apparent hostility to Islam.  Derrida claimed that Islam was “the other of democracy.”  He supported the coup that forestalled the likely victory of Algerian Islamists in democratic elections, arguing for the idea of democratic autoimmunity.Though he freely...

...Examines political philosopher Claude Lefort’s notion of the “empty space of power” in the midst of democratic politics and his critique of the relation between the political and the theological. Democracy Epistemology Lefort Claude Political theology Schmitt Carl Secularism Spinoza Baruch...

...This chapter takes up Cooper’s Littlepage trilogy, which helps us track historically the substantive, if diminishing threat that the power of commons democracy posed to the growing economic power of liberalism in the early United States. These three long-neglected novels assume a wide familiarity...

...Commons Democracy presents an overlooked history of democracy in the United States. Like the familiar one, its story begins in the Revolutionary era. But instead of the tale of the Founders’ high-minded ideals and their careful crafting of the safe framework for democracy...

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..., especially when their religious, social, and political commitments are coupled with social entrepreneurship and responsibility. Bina Swadaya civil discourse civil society decision making musyawarah and democracy dialogue musyawarah and Dijkstra John Ikatan Petani Pancasila Ismawan Bambang lay...

...Marcia Hermansen looks to Catholicism and its encounters with democracy, particularly in the recent history of the Catholic Church, for examples to which Islam and the Muslim world can look in order to learn about navigating the inevitable, contemporary encounter between religion and democracy...

.... There are supposed to be no alternatives. The only way to change seems to lie within the capitalist system, not beyond it. Against this view, this chapter argues that democracies have provoked a kind of financial capitalism without reflecting on the consequences. As democratic populations have sought to avoid...

... and of agonistic democracy is proposed through a reading of Coetzee's Life And Times of Michael K. Augustine Hobbes Thomas Benjamin Walter Kleist Heinrich von Schmitt Carl Marx Karl Spinoza Baruch Foucault Michel Esposito Roberto Rousseau Jean Jacques Demea Hume David Dialogues...

...This chapter explores three mid-nineteenth-century writers who responded early to the sense that democracy was now inevitable: Alexis de Tocqueville, Benjamin Disraeli, and George Eliot. It argues that all three were antagonistic to representative democracy as it came to exist by the century's end...

... with the perfectionist text exemplifies the provocation from the friend that the receptive reader most needs. This requires humbling acceptance that one's work is destined to be grist to the mill of critical departure, such that the aim of becoming intelligible to oneself is conjoined with the cultivation of a democracy...

... to understand the inner connection between theocracy and democracy in the sense that God's rule is opposed to sovereignty and is best realized by a constitutional system that turns on the impossibility of representing God politically. The discussion offers a way to understand the role of the Hebrew Bible...