Democracy in dark times /
""This is a truly illuminating and necessary book. Jeffrey Isaac lucidly explores the moral and political dilemmas of this turbulent fin-de-siecle, East and West. His passionate approach is inspired by a genuine moral vision that sees liberal democracy ...
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
©1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Democracy in hard times
- The return of the repressed : or, The limits of "democratic theory"
- The strange silence of political theory
- Hannah Arendt as dissenting intellectual
- A new guarantee on earth : human dignity and the politics of human rights
- Oases in the desert : Hannah Arendt on democratic politics
- The poverty of progressivism
- The meanings of 1989
- The pathos of modern freedom.