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Robin Celikates is associate professor of political and social philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he also directs the research project Transformations of Civil Disobedience.
Regina Kreide is professor of political theory and history of ideas at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany and is co-director of the Collaborative Research Center Dynamics of Security.
Tilo Wesche is interim professor of practical philosophy at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany.
Acknowledgments / Introduction, Robin Celikates, Regina Kriede and Tilo Wesche / Part I: Democracy in Crisis? / 1. The European Crisis: The Paradoxes of Constitutionalising Democratic Capitalism, Hauke Brunkhorst / 2. Democracy in Crisis: Why Political Philosophy Needs Social Theory, Regina Kreide, translated by Ciaran Cronin / 3. Radical Philosophy Encounters the Uprisings: Lessons from Greece, Costas Douzinas / 4. Citizenship, Democracy and the Plurality of Means, Forms and Levels of Participation, Andreas Niederberger/ Part II: Disobedience, Protest, and the Public Sphere / 5. Being Agitated – Agitated Being: Art and Activism in Times of Protest, Oliver Marchart / 6. An Ethics of Public Political Deliberation, Simone Chambers / 7. Resisting Resistance, Jane Mansbridge / 8. Digital Publics, Digital Contestation: A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere?, Robin Celikates/ Part III: Democracy Revisited: New Normative Foundations for Democracy?/ 9. Is There a Human Right to Democracy?, David Miller / 10. Democracy and Moral Rights, Stefan Gosepath / 11. Normative Sources of Democratic Deliberation, Tilo Wesche / 12. Democratic Autonomy and Democratic Authority, Henry S. Richardson / Bibliography / About the Editors and Contributors / Index
What is the future of democracy in an age of political and economic crisis, transnational governance and global protests? The chapters in this superb volume provide original and profound perspectives on the many dimensions of this question, with contributions that range from normative to legal and sociological analysis. This is political theory at its best - innovative, timely and practice-oriented.
— Rainer Forst, Goethe-University Frankfurt
This powerful collection resets the discussion of democracy today. The contributors push a rethinking of citizenship, rights, deliberation, and legitimacy as they confront normative democratic theory with the challenges facing real existing democracies: digital technologies that simultaneously increase participation and surveillance; the build-up of unaccountable international institutions; economic crises, inequality, and debt; and, most important, ongoing riots, protests, and mass resistance that call into question democratic institutions themselves. This path-breaking volume not only crosses the divide between normative democratic theory and social theory, it also establishes the terms of debate for decades to come.
— Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Includes contributions from highly esteemed scholars in the field of democratic theory.
Brings together authors from different theoretical paradigms to shed new light on highly topical questions.
Offers an enlarged notion of contemporary democracy, from civil disobedience to problems of legitimation.
Fills research gap by linking philosophy of current societal problems and questions of democratic legitimation