Can democracy recover? : the roots of a crisis / Yaron Ezrahi, Dana Blander.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nature as the transcendental imaginary of modern secular society : preliminary considerations -- The rise of the Western nature/culture dualistic cosmology from a comparative perspective -- Risks and opportunities inherent in the unstable demarcation lines between nature and culture -- The imaginary of the modern democratic individual as a political agency -- Democratic political causality -- Public facts as political currency -- The visibility and accountability of political power -- Objectivity as a fictional limit of the political -- The objectifying gaze of science and technology in the political context -- Economics as politics by other means -- The virtual objectification of the law -- The political disempowerment of the modern democratic citizen -- The elusiveness of political causality -- The loss of self-evident public facts and the crisis of the common-sense conceptions of reality -- The decay of the epistemological norm of political visibility -- The fall of objectivity and objectification -- Early modernizers of politics -- Modern critics of democracy -- Can democracy recover : concluding reflections -- Epilogue : "Depth skepticism" and the roots of democratic crisis.

"Responding to growing public anxiety about the current state of democracy, this book will appeal to scholars in political theory, history and anthropology, as well as to the wider educated public. It provides an analysis of changes in the deep structure of Western democracy offering new imaginaries of political order"-- Provided by publisher.

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