Against Democracy: Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations

by Simon During

Book Overview

This book argues that we can no longer envision a political system that might practically displace democracy or, more accurately, global democratic state capitalism. Democracy has become fundamental: It extends deeper and deeper into everyday life; it grounds and limits our political thought and values. That is the sense in which we do indeed live at history's end. But this end is not a happy one, because the system that we now have does not satisfy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823242552
• ISBN13: 9780823242559
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"