Imagined Democracies - Necessary Political Fictions (Hardcover, New)

This book proposes a revisionist approach to democratic politics. Yaron Ezrahi focuses on the creative unconscious collective imagination that generates ever-changing visions of legitimate power and authority, which compete for enactment and institutionalization in the political arena. If, in the past, political authority was grounded in fictions such as the divine right of kings, the laws of nature, historical determinism and scientism, today the space of democratic politics is filled with multiple alternative social imaginaries of the desirable political order. Exposure to electronic mass media has made contemporary democratic publics more aware that credible popular fictions have greater impact on shaping our political realities than do rational social choices or moral arguments. The pressing political question in contemporary democracy is, therefore, how to select and enact political fictions that promote peace and how to found the political order on checks and balances between alternative political imaginaries of freedom and justice.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2012
First published:	October 2012
Authors:	Yaron Ezrahi
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	340
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-02575-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy
LSN:	1-107-02575-3
Barcode:	9781107025752

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