{"product_id":"imagined-democracies-necessary-political-fictions-hardback-9781107025752","title":"Imagined Democracies; Necessary Political Fictions (Hardback) 9781107025752","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eImagined Democracies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNecessary Political Fictions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn our era of mass electronic communications, political realities are produced by believable fictions that echo popular desires.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eYaron Ezrahi (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107025752, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 October 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e340 pages, 3 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.6 x 2.2 cm, 0.7 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 book offers an original revisionist, theoretically eclectic approach that takes on the postmodern problematisations of contemporary democracy. In the vein of other contemporary theorists of social imaginaries like Charles Taylor and Benedict Anderson, Ezrahi's book … moves beyond these thinkers to offer a unique approach.' Bryant W. Sculos, Political Studies Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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 space of democratic politics is filled with multiple alternative social imaginaries of the desirable political order. Exposure to electronic mass media has made contemporary democratic publics more aware that credible popular fictions have greater impact on shaping our political realities than do rational social choices or moral arguments. The pressing political question in contemporary democracy is, therefore, how to select and enact political fictions that promote peace and how to found the political order on checks and balances between alternative political imaginaries of freedom and justice.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Necessary Fictions of the Political and the Reality of Political Fictions: 1. The contest over the rightful domain of the imagination\u003cbr\u003e 2. The revival and contemporary legacy of Giambatista Vico (1668–1744) as a modern theorist of the political imagination\u003cbr\u003e 3. Modes of imagining: elements of a theory of the political imagination\u003cbr\u003e 4. Naturalization and historicization as strategies of the political imagination\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Modern Common Sense and the Rise of Modern Political Imaginaries: 5. The historicity of common sense and the role of scientism in the modern political imagination\u003cbr\u003e 6. Empiricism, induction, and visibility: the moral epistemology of democratic political power\u003cbr\u003e 7. The performing arts and the performance of politics: the dialectics between the transparent and self-concealing imagination\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Modern Imaginaries of Democratic Political Agencies and Causality: 8. Voluntary action, the fear of theatricality, and the materialization of the political\u003cbr\u003e 9. Animated fictions: self (as) fulfilling prophecy and the performative imaginaries of democratic political agencies\u003cbr\u003e 10. Individuals between liberal and illiberal corporations\u003cbr\u003e 11. The impact of culture, the cultivation of the individual interior in literature, painting, and music\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Postmodern Turn and the Return of Political Theatricality: 12. Mass media and the refictionalization of agency and reality\u003cbr\u003e 13. The ethics and pragmatics of the democratic political imagination: on choosing the imaginaries we want to live by.\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], History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265506758936,"sku":"9781107025752","price":73.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107025752i.jpg?v=1692023592","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/imagined-democracies-necessary-political-fictions-hardback-9781107025752","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}