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.
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