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OverviewDemocracy hope or illusion? Blooming, failing or declining? Our doubts and hesitation make part of unbending efforts to endorse and explain democracy. Who is right the custodians of promise ort the prophets of decline? The book concentrates on doubts. The author tries to explore -the other side of the moon-, emphasizing the role of critical thinking, opposing a main-current optimism. Defending democracy we want to generate hope, but hoping may be a dangerous craft. Protecting our hope we are prone to believe that democracy even if it is not a full success story is justified in its nature and out of question. How much do we have to forget to sanction this view? This is, in fact, the main question the book raises. It gives voice to those who never, in their writing on democracy, used a flattering tone. Starting with Greek giants Plato and Aristotle up to modern and most recent times, going through a broad field of revealing criticism, leaving us with unsettling feeling that democracy is rather something to be explained than something to be celebrated. Living in democracy, lamenting its underperformances, we must not overlook a fundamental question in what part do our disappointments reflect the -art of forgetting-, allowing us to cast into oblivion all serious doubts originating in a critical discourse on modernity and democracy? Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stanislaw FilipowiczPublisher: Peter Lang Publishing Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing ISBN: 9781299878341ISBN 10: 1299878342 Pages: 237 Publication Date: 01 January 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Electronic book text Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |