Democratic Piety : Complexity, Conflict and Violence

Name: Democratic Piety
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
SKU: 9780748633654
Price: 18000 KES
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ISBN: 9780748633654

by Adrian Little

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Format Hardback

Book Series Taking on the Political

ISBN-10 0748633650

ISBN-13 9780748633654

Publisher Edinburgh University Press

Imprint Edinburgh University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 25th, 2008

Print length 208 Pages

Weight 464 grams

Dimensions 24.00 x 16.40 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: Political structures / systems: democracy Political structures: democracy

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An analysis of the nature of contemporary democratic theory and the prevalence of pious discourses of democracy in contemporary politics.

This book presents an innovative analysis of the nature of democratic theory, focusing on the prevalence of pious discourses of democracy in contemporary politics. Democracy is now promoted in religious terms to such an extent that it has become sacrosanct in Western political theory. This book argues that such piety relies on unsophisticated political analysis paying scant attention to the complex conditions of contemporary politics. The contention is that it is more useful to think of democracy in terms of the centrality of political disagreement and its propensity to generate political violence. This argument is exemplified by the ways in which democracy and violence have been conceptualised in the war on terrorism.

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