Imagined Democracies: Necessary Political Fictions

by Yaron Ezrahi

Book Overview

This book proposes a revisionist approach to democratic politics. Yaron Ezrahi focuses on the creative unconscious collective imagination that generates ever-changing visions of legitimate power and authority, which compete for enactment and institutionalization in the political arena. If, in the past, political authority was grounded in fictions such as the divine right of kings, the laws of nature, historical determinism and scientism, today the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107529921
• ISBN13: 9781107529922
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"