TY  - BOOK
AU  - Inston,Kevin
TI  - Rousseau and radical democracy
T2  - Continuum studies in philosophy
SN  - 9781441146113
AV  - JC179.R9 I65 2010eb
U1  - 321.8 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Continuum
KW  - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Ideologies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-220); The negativity of nature -- Perfectible man as the subject of lack -- Constructing political identities -- The ethics of democracy -- Rethinking the universal -- Constructing the general will -- The democratic paradox: the legislator -- Rousseau's radical democracy
N2  - Rousseau and Radical Democracy presents the first comprehensive examination of Rousseau's founding role in, and continuing relevance for, recent and influential theories of democracy. Kevin Inston demonstrates the actuality of Rousseau's thinking through an analysis of his deep connection with the groundbreaking work of contemporary European thinkers, including Lefort, Laclau and Mouffe. The book affirms Rousseau's centrality for current debates in democratic thought by showing how, contrary to common assumptions, his writings emphasise the openness and difference necessary for a dynamic mode
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