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Sharing Democracy (Hardcover, New)
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It is frequently assumed that the "people" must have something in
common or else democracy will fail. This assumption that democracy
requires commonality - such as a shared nationality, a common
culture, or consensus on a core set of values - sets theorists and
political actors alike on a futile search for what we have in
common, and it generates misplaced anxiety when it turns out that
this commonality is not forthcoming.
In Sharing Democracy, Michaele Ferguson argues that this
preoccupation with commonality misdirects our attention toward what
we share and away from how we share in democracy. This produces an
ironically anti-democratic tendency to emphasize the passive
possession of commonality at the expense of promoting the active
exercise of political freedom. Ferguson counteracts this tendency
by exposing the reasons for the persistent allure of the common.
She offers in its stead a radical vision of democracy grounded in
political freedom: the capacity of ordinary people to make and
remake the world in which they live. This vision of democracy is
exemplified in protest marches: cacophonous, unpredictable, and
self-authorizing collective enactments of our world-building
freedom.
Ferguson develops her radical vision of democracy by drawing on
Hannah Arendt's account of how we share a world in common with
others, Ludwig Wittgenstein's later philosophy of language, and
Linda Zerilli's critique of the essentialist/anti-essentialist
debates in feminist theory. She juxtaposes critical readings of
democratic theorists with readings of authors in related fields,
such as Benedict Anderson, Robert Putnam, and Charles Taylor. Her
theoretical argument is illustrated and informed by interpretations
of political events, including the Arab Spring, the integration of
Little Rock High School, debates over Quebec secession, immigrant
rights protests in the US in 2006, and the Occupy movement.
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