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Democratic piety :

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0748633669

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0748652701

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1281785881

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6611785884

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9780748633661

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9780748652709

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9781281785886

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9786611785888

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0748633650

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9780748633654

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b717264

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Democratic piety :

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complexity, conflict and violence /

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Adrian Little.

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Edinburgh :

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Edinburgh University Press,

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©2008.

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1 online resource (viii, 191 pages)

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Taking on the political

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and index.

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Introduction: Pious discourses of democracy -- 1. Complexity theory and democratic politics -- 2. Complexity, democratisation and conflict -- 3. Democracy, consensus and dissent -- 4. Democracy and violence -- 5. Terrorism, violence and the ethics of democracy -- Conclusion: The constitutive failure of democracy.

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This book presents an innovative analysis of the nature of democratic theory, focusing on the prevalence of pious discourses of democracy in contemporary politics. Democracy is now promoted in religious terms to such an extent that it has become sacrosanct in Western political theory. This book argues that such piety relies on unsophisticated political analysis paying scant attention to the complex conditions of contemporary politics. The contention is that it is more useful to think of democracy in terms of the centrality of political disagreement and its propensity to generate political violence. This argument is exemplified by the ways in which democracy and violence have been conceptualised in the war on terrorism. Key Features Challenges democratic piety through the application of key contemporary approaches in political theory: complexity theory, post-structuralism and the idea of radical democracy Uses the work of theorists such as Jacques Ranci÷re, William Connolly, Chantal Mouffe, Judith Butler, Slavoj ÅưiÅℓek, Giorgio Agamben, Walter Benjamin and Alain Badiou to interrogate the discourses of democracy which characterise contemporary political debate Grounds the theoretical analysis of democratic discourse with examples from contemporary politics including the war on terror and the struggles for recognition of refugees and asylum seekers

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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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178588

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Democratic piety.

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0748633650

Democracy-- Philosophy.

Democracy-- Philosophy.

Democratie.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- General.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Ideologies-- Democracy.

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Little, Adrian,1969-

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20201208093659.0

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