{"product_id":"can-democracy-recover-the-roots-of-a-crisis-paperback-softback-9781009350884","title":"Can Democracy Recover?; The Roots of a Crisis (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009350884","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCan Democracy Recover?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Roots of a Crisis\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTraces the epistemological roots of the crisis of modern democracy by exploring major cosmological shifts.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eYaron Ezrahi (Author), Dana Blander (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009350884, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 January 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.408 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This volume responds to the unfolding crises of democracy in recent years by seeking to go deeply into the philosophical foundations of modernity in general and democracy in particular … Recommended.' J. D. Moon, Choice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Can Democracy Recover?' explores the roots of the contemporary democratic crisis. It scrutinizes the evolution and subsequent fragmentation of modern political epistemology, highlighting citizens increasing inability to make sense of the political universe in which they live, their loss of confidence in political causality, distinguishing facts from fiction and objective from partisan attitudes. The book culminates in a speculative discourse on democracy's uncertain future. This work is the final part in Yaron Ezrahi's trilogy. The first, 'The Descent of Icarus' (1990), explored the scientific revolution's role in shaping modern democracy. The second, 'Imagined Democracies' (2012), examined the collective political imagination's impact on the rise and fall of political regimes, emphasizing the modern partnership between science and democracy. 'Can Democracy Recover?' traces the political implications of the erosion of the Nature-Culture dichotomy, the bedrock of modernity's cosmological imagination, and anticipates the emergence of new political imaginaries.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface Ruth HaCohen\u003cbr\u003e Words from the author\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Rise of Western Politics Following the Collapse of Monistic Medieval Cosmology: 1. Nature as the transcendental imaginary of modern secular society: preliminary considerations\u003cbr\u003e 2. The rise of the western cosmological dualistic nature\/culture imaginary from a comparative perspective\u003cbr\u003e 3. Risks and innovations inherent in the unstable borderline between nature and culture\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Emergence of the Epistemological Constitution of Modern Democracy: 4. The imaginary of the modern voluntary individual as a democratic political agency\u003cbr\u003e 5. Democratic political causality\u003cbr\u003e 6. Objective public facts as political currency\u003cbr\u003e 7. The visibility and accountability of political power\u003cbr\u003e 8. Objectivity as a fictional limit of the political\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Dialectics of Objectification: Limiting Overt and Enhancing Hidden Politics: 9. The objectifying gaze of science and technology in the political context\u003cbr\u003e 10. Economics as politics by other means\u003cbr\u003e 11. The virtual objectification of the law\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Erosion of the Epistemological Constitution of Modern Democracy: 12. The political disempowerment of the individual citizen\u003cbr\u003e 13. The elusiveness of political causality\u003cbr\u003e 14. The loss of self-evident public facts and the crisis of the common-sense conceptions of reality\u003cbr\u003e 15. The decay of the epistemological norm of political visibility and accountability\u003cbr\u003e 16. The fall of objectivity and objectification\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Democracy Beyond Modernity: Can a Self-Fulfilling Democracy be Imagined in our Time?: 17. Early modernizers of politics\u003cbr\u003e 18. Critics of modern democracy\u003cbr\u003e Concluding reflections\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: 'Depth skepticism' and the roots of democratic crisis Dana Blander.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political science \u0026amp; theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political science \u0026amp; theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20science%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20%5BJPA%5D%22\"\u003eJPA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52501424210200,"sku":"9781009350884","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009350884i.jpg?v=1786237539","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/can-democracy-recover-the-roots-of-a-crisis-paperback-softback-9781009350884","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}