Democratic Piety : Complexity, Conflict and Violence
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
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: 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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