{"product_id":"post-foundational-theories-of-democracy-reclaiming-freedom-equality-solidarity-9780748683024","title":"Post-Foundational Theories of Democracy: Reclaiming Freedom, Equality, Solidarity","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eCombines the heated debates between post-structuralist critics and defenders of democracy to create a new theory\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAre we living in post-democratic times - has democracy turned into an empty institutional shell? The upsurge of democratic revolutions and revolts in the West and the Arab world begs to differ. Does this mean there is a political alternative to existing democracy, or has it become impossible to step out of the 'democratic horizon'? Approaching these unfolding historical developments from the perspective of post-foundational democratic thought, Oliver Marchart creates a new model that reconciles both of these viewpoints.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOliver Marchart \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Sociology at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He is author of \u003cem\u003ePost-Foundational Political Thought: Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau\u003c\/em\u003e (Edinburgh University Press, 2007) and co-editor (with Simon Critchley) of \u003cem\u003eLaclau: A Critical Reader \u003c\/em\u003e(2004). He is also author of six books written in German including \u003cem\u003eBeginning Anew: Hannah Arendt, Revolution and Globalisation \u003c\/em\u003e(2005) and \u003cem\u003eTechno-Colonialism: Theory and Imaginary Cartography of Culture and the Media\u003c\/em\u003e (2004).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51806061396242,"sku":"9780748683024","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_45678076-a741-438c-ad8d-21aae7b7a47e.jpg?v=1765973606","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/post-foundational-theories-of-democracy-reclaiming-freedom-equality-solidarity-9780748683024","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}