1st Edition
The Authoritarian Interlude Democracy, Values and the Politics of Hubris
By Peter Marden
Copyright 2015
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
What do we value as a political virtue? What are the core values of democracy in the modern era? What is a democratic culture and can it coexist with a predatory capitalist corporatism? Is democracy just about human rights? What is the nature of public dissent? These are some of the questions posed in this book as Peter Marden extends debates on democracy by critically examining the key role of... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Paradoxes of Liberalism; Chapter 3 Liberalism and Value Pluralism; Chapter 4 Deliberation and Democratic Justice; Chapter 5 The Nuances of Judgment; Chapter 6 Dissent and the Politics of Defiance; Chapter 7 Exceptionalism and Entitlement; Chapter 8 The Shadow of Narcissism; Chapter 9 Technocrats, Cabals and Non-representation; Chapter 10 Deliberative Democracy and the Ecological Imperative; Chapter 11 Techno-Democracy and the Limits of Communicative Reason; Chapter 12 Towards a Democratic Culture; Chapter 13 Democracy and the Imagination;
Biography
Peter Marden is an Honorary Principal Research Fellow of RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. His main interests are political theory and philosophy, with a particular focus on the intersection of ethics and democracy. He was previously a Senior Lecturer, and Director of International Development at RMIT University. His previous books include The Decline of Politics (Ashgate) in 2003 exploring the ethical dimensions of political life in the modern age, especially the diminishing nature of public engagement
