This book focuses on Andrew Arato s democratic theory and its
relevance to contemporary issues such as processes of
democratization, civil society, constitution-making, and the modern
Executive.
Andrew Arato is -both globally and disciplinarily- a prominent
thinker in the fields of democratic theory, constitutional law, and
comparative politics, influencing several generations of scholars.
This is the first volume to systematically address his democratic
theory. Including contributions from leading scholars such as Dick
Howard, Ulrich Preuss, Hubertus Buchstein, Janos Kis, Uri Ram,
Leonardo Avritzer, Carlos de la Torre, and Nicol s Lynch, this book
is organized around three major areas of Arato s influence on
contemporary political and social thought. The first section offers
a comprehensive view of Arato s scholarship from his early work on
critical theory and Western Marxism to his current research on
constitution-making and its application. The second section shifts
its focus from the previous, comprehensive approach, to a much more
specific one: Arato s widespread influence on the study of civil
society in democratization processes in Latin America. The third
section includes a previously unpublished work, A conceptual
history of dictatorship (and its rivals, ) one of the few
systematic interrogations on the meaning of a political form of
fundamental relevance in the contemporary world. "
Critical Theory and Democracy" will be of interest to critical
and social theorists, and all Arato scholars.
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