TY  - GEN
T1  - Imagined democracies : necessary political fictions
A1  - Ezrahi, Yaron
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2012
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn812178325
AB  - "In our era of mass electronic communications, political realities are produced by believable fictions that echo popular desires. Hence the pressing question facing contemporary democracies is how to privilege the performance of political fictions that promote peace and welfare rather than violence and poverty"--
AB  - "This book proposes a revisionist approach to democratic politics. Yaron Ezrahi focuses on the creative unconscious collective imagination that generates ever-changing visions of legitimate power and authority, which compete for enactment and institutionalization in the political arena. If, in the past, political authority was grounded in fictions such as the divine right of kings, the laws of nature, historical determinism, and scientism, today the space of democratic politics is filled with multiple alternative social imaginaries of the desirable political order. Exposure to electronic mass media has made contemporary democratic publics more aware that credible popular fictions have greater impact on shaping our political realities than do rational social choices or moral arguments. The pressing political question in contemporary democracy is, therefore, how to select and enact political fictions that promote peace, not violence, and how to found the political order on checks and balances between alternative political imaginaries of freedom and justice"--
CN  - JC423 .E968 2012eb
SN  - 9781139569309
SN  - 1139569309
SN  - 9781139198769
SN  - 1139198769
SN  - 9781139571111
SN  - 1139571117
SN  - 9781139572866
SN  - 1139572865
SN  - 1107529921
SN  - 9781107529922
SN  - 1139889265
SN  - 9781139889261
SN  - 1139579681
SN  - 9781139579681
SN  - 1139573586
SN  - 9781139573580
SN  - 1283638754
SN  - 9781283638753
SN  - 9781107025752
SN  - 1107025753
KW  - Democracy.
KW  - Democracy in literature.
KW  - Politics in literature.
KW  - Political fiction : History and criticism.
KW  - Mass media : Political aspects.
KW  - Politique-fiction : Histoire et critique.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : History & Theory.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Ideologies : Democracy.
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Democracy in literature
KW  - Mass media : Political aspects
KW  - Political fiction
KW  - Politics in literature
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -