Wild Democracy: Anarchy, Courage, and Ruling the Law (Heretical Thought) - Hardcover

Buch 6 von 8: Heretical Thought

Norton, Anne

 
9780197644348: Wild Democracy: Anarchy, Courage, and Ruling the Law (Heretical Thought)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0197644341 ISBN 13: 9780197644348
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Wild Democracy calls for a more anarchic, more courageous democracy. This is an ethic for people who know the rights they hold, and who struggle to rule themselves. This is an ethic for unfinished revolutions; an ethic for those who will not be mastered. This is an ethic for those who hold fast to the rights they have by nature. This is an ethic that requires courage.

Democracy is always a risky business; full of promise and danger. The promise is the freedom to rule ourselves. The danger is fear: fear of the unknown, fear of the unruly, fear of one another, fear of anarchy. Fear leads to authoritarianism. The fearful look for a strong hand, a powerful leader, a protector, a gun. Anarchy leads to courage, to self-reliance, self-discipline, self-rule, and solidarity. Anarchy is the nursery of democracy. It is not anarchy we have to fear, it is authoritarianism.

We have been taught to see the people as a problem to be managed. Anne Norton sees them as a source of strength. Anarchic democracy grows wild: springing from the everyday actions of ordinary human beings.

Liberalism and conservatism alike have turned away from the democratic, to institutions, rules, and regulations. Anne Norton turns to anarchic people who practice democratic ethics.

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Anne Norton is the Stacey and Henry Jackson President's Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of seven books, including Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire, 95 Theses on Politics, Culture, and Method, and On the Muslim Question.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0197644341
ISBN 13 
9780197644348
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Anzahl der Seiten
227
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