Technology, Modernity, and Democracy, Beira Eduardo

Автор: Brennan Jason
Название: Against Democracy
ISBN: 0691178496 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691178493
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A bracingly provocative challenge to one of our most cherished ideas and institutions

Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us--it empowers us, helps us get what we want, and tends to make us smarter, more virtuous, and more caring for one another. These are some of our most cherished ideas about democracy. But Jason Brennan says they are all wrong.

In this trenchant book, Brennan argues that democracy should be judged by its results--and the results are not good enough. Just as defendants have a right to a fair trial, citizens have a right to competent government. But democracy is the rule of the ignorant and the irrational, and it all too often falls short. Furthermore, no one has a fundamental right to any share of political power, and exercising political power does most of us little good. On the contrary, a wide range of social science research shows that political participation and democratic deliberation actually tend to make people worse--more irrational, biased, and mean. Given this grim picture, Brennan argues that a new system of government--epistocracy, the rule of the knowledgeable--may be better than democracy, and that it's time to experiment and find out.

A challenging critique of democracy and the first sustained defense of the rule of the knowledgeable, Against Democracy is essential reading for scholars and students of politics across the disciplines.

Featuring a new preface that situates the book within the current political climate and discusses other alternatives beyond epistocracy, Against Democracy is a challenging critique of democracy and the first sustained defense of the rule of the knowledgeable.

Автор: Talisse, Robert B. (w. Alton Jones Professor Of Philosophy And Professor Political Science, W. Alton Jones Professor Of Philosophy And Professor Polit
Название: Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in its Place
ISBN: 0190924195 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190924195
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Описание: We live in an age of political polarization. As political beliefs on the left and the right have been pulled closer to the extremes, so have our social environments: we seldom interact with those with whom we don't see eye to eye. Making matters worse, we are being appealed to--by companies,
products, and teams, for example--based on our deep-seated, polarized beliefs. Our choice of Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts, Costco or Sam's Club, soccer or football, New York Times vs. Wall Street Journal is an expression of our beliefs and a reinforcement of our choice to stay within the confines of
our self-selected political community, making us even more polarized. Letting it bleed into these choices in every corner of our lives, we take democracy too far and it ends up keeping us apart. We overdo democracy.

When we overdo democracy, we allow it to undermine and crowd out many of the most important social goods that democracy is meant to deliver. What's more, in overdoing democracy, we spoil certain social goods that democracy needs in order to flourish. A thriving democracy needs citizens to reserve
space in their social lives for collective activities that are not structured by political allegiances. To ensure the health and the future of democracy, we need to forge civic friendships by working together in social contexts in which political affiliations and party loyalties are not merely
suppressed, but utterly beside the point.

Drawing on his extensive research, Talisse sheds light on just how deeply entrenched our political polarization has become and opens our eyes to how often we allow politics to dictate the way we see almost everything. By limiting our interactions with others and our experience of the world so that
we only encounter the politically like-minded, we are actually damaging the thing that democracy is meant to preserve in the first place: the more fundamental good of recognizing and respecting each other's standing as equals.

Автор: Moore, Alfred
Название: Critical elitism
ISBN: 1316646254 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316646250
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: How are we to handle the tension between expertise and democracy? Developing a democratic model of expert authority, this book describes the ways in which civil society, expert institutions, and democratic innovations can contribute to its production. It addresses deliberative democrats, but will also interest scholars working in environment, health policy, and science communication.

Автор: Devin Penner
Название: Rethinking the Spectacle: Guy Debord, Radical Democracy, and the Digital Age
ISBN: 0774860502 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774860505
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Spectacle is usually considered a superficial form of politics, which tries to distract and deceive a passive audience. It is difficult to see how this type of politics could be reconciled with the democratic requirement of active and informed agency. Rethinking the Spectacle re-examines the tension between spectacle and political agency using the ideas and practices of Guy Debord and the Situationist International as a point of departure. Drawing on radical democratic theory and examining case studies such as the 2011 Occupy movement, Devin Penner concludes that spectacle can and should be used to mobilize the public for egalitarian purposes.

Автор: Johan Christensen, Cathrine Holst , Anders Molander
Название: Expertise, policy-making and democracy
ISBN: 0367617765 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367617769
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to debates about expertise, policy-making, and democracy.

Автор: Breckman Warren
Название: Adven Adventures of the Symbolic: Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy
ISBN: 0231143958 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231143950
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Описание: Warren Breckman critically revisits thrilling experiments in the aftermath of Marxism.

Название: Technology, modernity, and democracy
ISBN: 1786607190 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786607195
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This important collection of essays by Andrew Feenberg presents his critical theory of technology, an innovative approach to philosophy and sociology of technology based on a synthesis of ideas drawn from STS and Frankfurt School Critical Theory. According to critical theory of technology, technologies are neither neutral nor deterministic, but are encoded with specific socio-economic values and interests. Feenberg explores how they can be developed and adapted to more or less democratic values and institutions, and how their future is subject to social action, negotiation and reinterpretation. Technologies bring with them a particular "rationality," sets of rules and implied ways of behaving and thinking which, despite their profound influence on institutions, ideas and actions, can be transformed in a process of democratic rationalization. Feenberg argues that the emergence of human communication on the Internet and the environmental movement offer abundant examples of public interventions that have reshaped technologies originally designed for different purposes. This volume includes chapters on citizenship and critical theory of technology, philosophy of technology and modernity, and Heidegger and Marcuse, two of the most prominent philosophers of technology.

Автор: Rumki Basu
Название: Democracy and public policy in the post-covid-19 world
ISBN: 0367679787 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367679781
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Описание: This volume studies the likely impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on future policy making in India and other democracies. It critically exmines the available theoretical frameworks, models and approaches used in the policy making process and studies their contemporary relevance.

Автор: J. Budd
Название: Democracy, Economics, and the Public Good
ISBN: 1349496340 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349496341
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Описание: Examining essential aspects of American life, John Budd investigates how informational sources (print and broadcast media and other resources) fall short when it comes to informing citizens, failing our democracy and damaging the public good.

Автор: B. Isakhan; S. Slaughter
Название: Democracy and Crisis
ISBN: 1349459615 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349459612
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Описание: Recent years have seen constant reports on the failures of governance and the crisis of democracy. By examining cases like Global Financial Crisis, the Arab Revolutions and Wikileaks this volume highlights tensions between governance and democracy during times of crisis and examines the prospects of democratising governance in the 21st Century.

Автор: Anita Horn
Название: The Human Right to Democracy: A Critical Evaluation
ISBN: 3110628503 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110628500
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
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Описание: Die neue Reihe Ideen&Argumente ist dem Ideal einer pluralistischen und offenen Argumentationskultur verpflichtet und prasentiert in solider Ausstattung Themen und Fragestellungen, die inhaltlich oder methodisch wichtige Beitrage zur zeitgenossischen Philosophie leisten. Die Publikationen sollen die Vorzuge angelsachsischer und kontinentaler Philosophietraditionen in ein produktives Zusammenspiel bringen. Herausragende, systematisch ausgerichtete Originalausgaben und deutsche Erstausgaben aus allen Teilgebieten der Theoretischen und Praktischen Philosophie finden in Ideen&Argumente ihren Platz. Willkommen sind programmatische Monographien jeglicher philosophischer Provenienz. Es gilt, die zeitgenossische Philosophie in ihrer thematischen und methodischen Vielfalt neu zur Geltung zu bringen.

Автор: Mounk Yascha
Название: The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
ISBN: 0674976827 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674976825
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Описание: From India to Turkey, from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. Two core components of liberal democracy individual rights and the popular will are at war, putting democracy itself at risk. In plain language, Yascha Mounk describes how we got here, where we need to go, and why there is little time left to waste.