Date 13 January 2023
Pages 471
Format cm 14 x 21
Price € 25.00
EAN 9782021521696
Publisher Website www.seuil.com

Democracies from Above, Democracies from Below

In the Labyrinth of Politics
Publisher Seuil
COLLECTION La couleur des idées
A key book about the shortfalls, defects, and contradictions of democracy.

The crisis of democracy essentially stems from an ever-widening separation between two strata of society: the "lower" living their lives, and the "upper" wielding the power are ever more estranged from each other. Mistrust of institutions, unease with representation, record abstention during elections, an increase in individual rights, citizenship in shreds, hatred of freely elected powers... At a time when foreigners and migrants are seen as dangerous to national identity, police violence is on the rise, and authoritarian powers are supported by populist waves, this book implements a new reading of Paul Ricœur’s work to entirely rethink the question of democracy.

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