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- Eclipse of the Demos : the Cold War and the Crisis of Democracy before Neoliberalism
- Publication Name
- The Eclipse of the Demos
- Title
- The Eclipse of the Demos
- Subtitle
- The Cold War and the Crisis of Democracy before Neoliberalism
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780700629206
- ISBN
- 9780700629206
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Genre
- Political Science
- Topic
- History & Theory, General, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism, American Government / National
- Release Year
- 2020
- Release Date
- 30/05/2020
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Weight
- 0 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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As populism presaging authoritarianism surges worldwide and political rights and civil liberties erode, pundits, politicians, and political scientists agree: democracy is in crisis. But where many blame the rise of neoliberalism, Kyong-Min Son suggests that a longer historical perspective is in order. His book, The Eclipse of the Demos , traces the crisis of democracy back to a fateful transformation of democratic theory during the Cold War, when the idea of the demos--a public body configured for the common good--gave way to a view of democracy as an instrument used by individuals to serve their private interests. While the postwar pressures of totalitarianism and communism did not directly cause this transformation, Son contends that they did activate instrumental democracy'e(tm)s three constitutive motifs: fear of the masses, faith in rational systemic management, and an ambivalence about the relationship between capitalism and democracy. Forged of these elements drawn from disparate intellectual traditions, instrumental democracy displaced a citizenry disposed to judge competing public claims according to the principles of the common good and political equality. In the instrumental model, citizens are seen as consumers whose political claims are equivalent--simply because each is willing to pay the same price: a vote. It is this transactional view of democracy, Son argues, that led to the unchallenged dominance of finance capital and growing social divisions that have fueled the rise of neoliberalism. The Eclipse of the Demos envisions an answer to our present predicament: a democracy that rests on a demos engaging in collective inquiry and judgment rather than on a group of individuals concerned exclusively with their private welfare. By providing a clearer understanding of democracy before neoliberalism, this book begins the hard work of realizing that vision.
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Publisher
University Press of Kansas
ISBN-10
0700629203
ISBN-13
9780700629206
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22038431879
Product Key Features
Book Title
Eclipse of the Demos : the Cold War and the Crisis of Democracy before Neoliberalism
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History & Theory, General, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism, American Government / National
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Political Science
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
0 Oz
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Lc Classification Number
Jc423.S685 2020
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" The Eclipse of the Demos offers a striking account of the current fate of democracy in the North Atlantic world and puts paid to presentist accounts of neoliberalism and right-wing ascendance. By focusing on the distinctive contours of Cold War democratic theory and practice, the book sheds light on the historical trajectory of liberal democracy and how it relates both historically and conceptually to neoliberalism, while carefully contextualizing current modalities of democratic disaffiliation. Written with audacity and erudition, Son's book constitutes an important contribution to an accurate and sober understanding of the current travails of democracy."-- Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo , author of Political Responsibility: Responding to Predicaments of Power "The critique of democracy by neoliberal thinkers like F. A. Hayek is often treated as a scandal, a basic sin against the ideology of the free society. Yet Kyong-Min Son's illuminating book shows that skepticism about democracy ran down the mainstream of scholarly conversation after 1945. There was no Golden Age. To understand the challenge to democracy posed by neoliberalism, we must reckon with the entire postwar period."-- Quinn Slobodian , author of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, "We can infer through Son's critiques of instrumental democracy what a fuller, richer, democratic culture might look like, and it whets our appetite for more. A rich and powerful book that pushes hard against the vanity of our morally obtuse managerial elites."-- Law and Liberty, " The Eclipse of the Demos offers a striking account of the current fate of democracy in the North Atlantic world and puts paid to presentist accounts of neoliberalism and right-wing ascendance. By focusing on the distinctive contours of Cold War democratic theory and practice, the book sheds light on the historical trajectory of liberal democracy and how it relates both historically and conceptually to neoliberalism, while carefully contextualizing current modalities of democratic disaffiliation. Written with audacity and erudition, Son's book constitutes an important contribution to an accurate and sober understanding of the current travails of democracy."-- Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo , author of Political Responsibility: Responding to Predicaments of Power "The critique of democracy by neoliberal thinkers like F. A. Hayek is often treated as a scandal, a basic sin against the ideology of the free society. Yet Kyong-Min Sons illuminating book shows that skepticism about democracy ran down the mainstream of scholarly conversation after 1945. There was no Golden Age. To understand the challenge to democracy posed by neoliberalism, we must reckon with the entire postwar period."-- Quinn Slobodian , author of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, 'eoe The Eclipse of the Demos offers a striking account of the current fate of democracy in the North Atlantic world and puts paid to presentist accounts of neoliberalism and right-wing ascendance. By focusing on the distinctive contours of Cold War democratic theory and practice, the book sheds light on the historical trajectory of liberal democracy and how it relates both historically and conceptually to neoliberalism, while carefully contextualizing current modalities of democratic disaffiliation. Written with audacity and erudition, Son's book constitutes an important contribution to an accurate and sober understanding of the current travails of democracy.'e-- Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo , author of Political Responsibility: Responding to Predicaments of Power 'eoeThe critique of democracy by neoliberal thinkers like F. A. Hayek is often treated as a scandal, a basic sin against the ideology of the free society. Yet Kyong-Min Sons illuminating book shows that skepticism about democracy ran down the mainstream of scholarly conversation after 1945. There was no Golden Age. To understand the challenge to democracy posed by neoliberalism, we must reckon with the entire postwar period.'e-- Quinn Slobodian , author of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Table of Content
Acknowledgments 1. Democratic Theory and the Crisis of Democracy 2. Locating the Demos 3. Democracy against the Demos: Specters of Totalitarianism and the Construction of Instrumental Democracy 4. The Search for Dynamic Stability: Democracy as a Self-Regulating System 5. Cold War Neoliberalism and the Capitalist Restructuring of Democracy 6. The Erosion of Democratic Attunement and the Crisis of Democracy 7. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2020
Lccn
2019-042726
Dewey Decimal
306.209045
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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