1st Edition
Democracies on the Move Contributions to a Social Theory of Contemporary Democracies
List of Contributors
PRESENTATION
Andrea Millefiorini
PART ONE
Democracy between the paradigm of crisis and paradigm of transformation
Chapter 1
STUDYING DEMOCRACY FROM A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Andrea Millefiorini
Chapter 2
THE DEMOCRATIC FACT: DEMOCRACY, CRISIS, TRANSFORMATION
Gaspare Nevola
Chapter 3
EMERGENCY POLITICS AND DE-DEMOCRATIZATION IN THE AGE OF AUTHORITARIAN NEOLIBERALISM
Fabio de Nardis
Chapter 4
THE FRAGILITY OF 'FACTUAL TRUTHS' AND THE DENIAL OF EXPERIENCE: ARENDTIAN OBSERVATIONS AND REMEDIES TO COUNTER THE REDUCTION OF DEMOCRATIC PLURALISM
Erica Antonini
PART TWO
The identity and social foundations of democratic freedom
Chapter 5
IDENTITY AND DEMOCRACY
Andrea Millefiorini
Chapter 6
CLAIMING THE SOCIAL IN FREEDOM
Massimo Pendenza
PART THREE
Imaginaries of democracy in the 21st century
Chapter 7
DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL CULTURE. FROM IDEOLOGIES TO SOCIAL IMAGINARIES
Ambrogio Santambrogio
Chapter 8
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE POLITICAL OR THE SHIFTING IMAGINARY OF MODERN DEMOCRACY
Paul Blokker
CONCLUSIONS
Andrea Millefiorini
Biography
Andrea Millefiorini is Associate Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, where he also teaches general sociology.
