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OverviewAt a time when nearly all political actors and observers—despite the nature of their normative commitments—morally appeal to the language of democracy, the particular signification of the term has become obscured. Hobbes and the Democratic Imaginary argues that critical engagement with various elements of the work of Hobbes, a notorious critic of democracy, can deepen our understanding of the problems, stakes, and ethics of democratic life. Firstly, Hobbes's descriptive anatomy of democratic sovereignty reveals what is essential to the institution of this form of government, in the face of the conceptual confusion that characterizes the contemporary deployment of democratic terminology. Secondly, Hobbes's critique of the mechanics of democracy points toward certain fundamental political risks that are internal to its mode of operation. And thirdly, contrary to Hobbes's own intentions, Christopher Holman shows how the selective redeployment of certain Hobbesian categories could help construct a normative ground in which democracy is the ethical choice in relation to other sovereign forms. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christopher HolmanPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438490427ISBN 10: 1438490429 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 02 April 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Democratic Non-Sense Hobbes as Democratic Anatomist Summary of Contents Part I: Democratic Critique 1. Hobbes on the Madness of Democracy The Multitude and the People in The Elements of Law and De Cive Democracy and Its Administration Democracy and the Hubris of the Many Eloquence and the Democratic Inflammation of the Passions Madness and Multitude in the Democratic Assembly 2. Civil Science against Democratic Normativity Freedom and Democratic Participation in The Elements of Law The Disarticulation of Freedom and Participation in De Cive Authorization and Representation in Leviathan The Disappearance of Democracy Part II: Democratic Conditions 3. Human Institution and Alterity Ontological Materialism and the Limits of Natural Knowledge Hobbesian Contingency The Philosophical Anthropology of Sensation Difference and the Passions Creativity and Social-Historical Alterity 4. Hobbesian Equality-in-Difference Equality as Natural Law Natural Reason and the Equality of Intelligences The Plurality of Reasons Curiosity, Happiness, and the Limits of Practical Wisdom The Practice of Equality Part III: Democratic Ethics 5. Democracy and Natural Law Hobbes’s Critique and Reconstruction of the Idea of Natural Law Politics and Antipolitics Liberty and Natural Power Natural Law and the True Liberty of the Subject The Reappearance of Participatory Desire in Leviathan Toward a Hobbesian Democracy Summation Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsEverybody knows that Hobbes opposed democracy. In this new study, Christopher Holman demonstrates the extraordinary depth of that opposition, showing that many of the revisions Hobbes makes to his theory over time are explicable as responses to the worry that he might inadvertently legitimate democratic governance. Ultimately, Holman argues that there is democratic potential in the very diversity and universality of the human desire to participate in governance, a desire that Hobbesian theory cannot fully repress. - Gordon Hull, author of Hobbes and the Making of Modern Political Thought Author InformationChristopher Holman is Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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