Special Issue: Deliberations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Special Issue: Deliberations write by Neil Badmington. This book was released on 2016. Special Issue: Deliberations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Democracy Without Shortcuts
Democracy Without Shortcuts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy Without Shortcuts write by Cristina Lafont. This book was released on 2020-01-12. Democracy Without Shortcuts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book articulates a participatory conception of deliberative democracy that takes the democratic ideal of self-government seriously. It aims to improve citizens' democratic control and vindicate the value of citizens' participation against conceptions that threaten to undermine it. The book critically analyzes deep pluralist, epistocratic, and lottocratic conceptions of democracy. Their defenders propose various institutional ''shortcuts'' to help solve problems of democratic governance such as overcoming disagreements, citizens' political ignorance, or poor-quality deliberation. However, all these shortcut proposals require citizens to blindly defer to actors over whose decisions they cannot exercise control. Implementing such proposals would therefore undermine democracy. Moreover, it seems naive to assume that a community can reach better outcomes 'faster' if it bypasses the beliefs and attitudes of its citizens. Unfortunately, there are no 'shortcuts' to make a community better than its members. The only road to better outcomes is the long, participatory road that is taken when citizens forge a collective will by changing one another's hearts and minds. However difficult the process of justifying political decisions to one another may be, skipping it cannot get us any closer to the democratic ideal. Starting from this conviction, the book defends a conception of democracy ''without shortcuts''. This conception sheds new light on long-standing debates about the proper scope of public reason, the role of religion in politics, and the democratic legitimacy of judicial review. It also proposes new ways to unleash the democratic potential of institutional innovations such as deliberative minipublics.
Deliberations: The Journals of Roland Barthes
Deliberations: The Journals of Roland Barthes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deliberations: The Journals of Roland Barthes write by Neil Badmington. This book was released on 2018-11-08. Deliberations: The Journals of Roland Barthes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘I’ve never kept a journal’, Roland Barthes declared in 1979, ‘ – or, rather, I’ve never known if I should keep one’. The form itself, he continued, was inferior and ‘unnecessary’, a ‘minor mania of writing’. Barthes died months making this statement, and the years since then have revealed that he had actually been concealing a fondness for diary-writing. The publication in 1985 of Incidents brought to light an intimate journal entitled ‘Soirées de Paris’, while 2009 saw the appearance of two much longer diaries kept by Barthes following the death of his mother in 1977 and during a trip to China in 1974, respectively. Further journals lie in the archive, unpublished and largely unseen; it is not clear if these will ever enter the public domain. This collection, which brings together some of the most prominent scholars in the field, considers the present implications of Roland Barthes’ journals. How do these diaries invite us to reconsider aspects of Barthes’ work which have become familiar through his reception as one of the twentieth century’s most influential literary and cultural critics? What do they allow us to see for the first time? What is their relation to the works whose appearance Barthes authorised during his lifetime? Where and how do they fit in his oeuvre? How do they relate to each other across moment and mood? Why might they call for deliberations? This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.
Democracy and Deliberation
Democracy and Deliberation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy and Deliberation write by Cary Federman. This book was released on 2021-06-15. Democracy and Deliberation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Balancing law and rights in sex offender legislation
Mourning Diary
Mourning Diary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mourning Diary write by Roland Barthes. This book was released on 2012-03-13. Mourning Diary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In the sentence ‘She's no longer suffering,' to what, to whom does ‘she' refer? What does that present tense mean?" —Roland Barthes, from his diary The day after his mother's death in October 1977, Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. For nearly two years, the legendary French theorist wrote about a solitude new to him; about the ebb and flow of sadness; about the slow pace of mourning, and life reclaimed through writing. Named a Top 10 Book of 2010 by The New York Times and one of the Best Books of 2010 by Slate and The Times Literary Supplement, Mourning Diary is a major discovery in Roland Barthes's work: a skeleton key to the themes he tackled throughout his life, as well as a unique study of grief—intimate, deeply moving, and universal.
