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OverviewThe twin crises of immigration and mass migration brought new urgency to the balance of power between progressive, humanitarian groups and their populist opponents. In the United States and many European countries, the outcome of this struggle is uncertain, with a high chance that the public will elect more politicians who support an agenda of nativism and privatization. The Antiegalitarian Mutation makes a forceful case that those seeking to limit citizenship and participation, political or otherwise, have co-opted democracy. Political and legal institutions are failing to temper the interests of people with economic power against the needs of the many, leading to an unsustainable rise in income inequality and a new oligarchy rapidly assuming broad social control. For Nadia Urbinati and Arturo Zampaglione, this insupportable state of affairs is not an inevitable outcome of robust capitalism but rather the result of an ideological war waged against social democracy by the neoliberal governments of Reagan, Thatcher, and others. These giants of free-market fundamentalism secured power through legitimate political means, and only by taking back our political institutions can we remedy the social ills that threaten to unmake our world. That, according to The Antiegalitarian Mutation, is democracy's challenge and its ongoing promise. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nadia Urbinati (Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies, Columbia University) , Arturo Zampaglione , Martin ThomPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.411kg ISBN: 9780231169844ISBN 10: 0231169841 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 23 August 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Arturo Zampaglione 1. A Great Mutation 2. The Value of Democracy 3. The Decline of Universalism 4. The Few and the Many 5. The Secession from Democracy 6. Differences and Identity Politics IndexReviewsThe Antiegalitarian Mutation presents some very stimulating considerations on the value of democracy, both as an ideal and as a practice, and on the impact that recent global anti-egalitarian phenomena have on it -- Emanuela Ceva, University of Pavia The Antiegalitarian Mutation is an accessible and wide-ranging analysis of the phenomenology and effects of the current crisis of Western democracies. -- Valeria Ottonelli, University of Genova In The Antiegalitarian Mutation, Nadia Urbinati and Arturo Zampaglione confront head-on the two potentially insurmountable challenges confronting contemporary democracy: increasing economic inequality and rising xenophobia. Combining passion and sobriety these interlocutors diagnose the sources of these ant-democratic threats, explore their dire implications for liberty and equality and endeavor to devise viable solutions to them. Anyone worried about the phenomena of plutocracy and right-wing populism and the future of democratic politics will need to read this important book. -- John P. McCormick, University of Chicago and author of Machiavellian Democracy Author InformationNadia Urbinati is Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University. Her books include Democracy Disfigured (2014) and A Cosmopolitanism of Nations (2009). Arturo Zampaglione is the New York correspondent for La Repubblica. Martin Thom is also the translator of Ruwen Ogien's Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants: An Introduction to Ethics (Columbia, 2015) and Alain Corbin's Village Bells: The Culture of the Senses in the Nineteenth-Century French Countryside (Columbia, 1998). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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