Democracy incorporated : managed democracy and the specter of inverted totalitarianism /

Democracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost cliché. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In "Democracy Incorporated" Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one wh...

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Hlavní autor: Wolin, Sheldon S.
Další autoři: Hedges, Chris (writer of introduction to 2017 edition.)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Princeton : Princeton University Press 2017, ©2008.
©2008
Vydání:New edition.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvc77b3h
Obsah:
  • Introduction to the 2017 edition / Chris Hedges
  • Preview
  • Myth in the making
  • Totalitarianism's inversion : beginnings of the imaginary of a permanent global war
  • Totalitarianism's inversion, democracy's perversion
  • The new world of terror
  • The utopian theory of superpower : the official version
  • The dynamics of transformation
  • The dynamics of the archaic
  • The politics of superpower : managed democracy
  • Intellectual elites against democracy
  • Domestic politics in the era of superpower and empire
  • Inverted totalitarianism : antecedents and precedents
  • Demotic moments
  • Democracy's prospects : looking backwards.