Two Cheers for Politics: Why Democracy Is Flawed, Frightening―and Our Best Hope - Hardcover

Purdy, Jedediah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1541673026 ISBN 13: 9781541673021

Verlag: Basic Books, 2022

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One of the country’s most astute legal scholars explains how American political culture disempowers ordinary citizens and makes the case for a reinvigorated democracy 
 
Americans across the political spectrum agree that our democracy is in crisis. We view our political opponents with disdain, if not terror, and an increasing number of us are willing to consider authoritarian alternatives. In Two Cheers for Politics, Jedediah Purdy argues that this heated political culture is a symptom not of too much democracy but too little. Today, the decisions that most affect our lives and our communities are often made outside the political realm entirely, as market ideology, constitutional law, and cultural norms effectively remove broad swaths of collective life from the table of collective decision. The result is a weakened and ineffective political system and an increasingly unequal and polarized society. If we wish to renew that society, we’ll need to claw back the ground that we’ve ceded to anti-politics and entrust one another with the power to shape our common life. 

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Jedediah Purdy teaches at Duke Law School and is a noted scholar of environmental, property, and constitutional law. His work has appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times, and the New Yorker, among other outlets, and he is on the editorial board of Dissent. He lives with his family in North Carolina. 
 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Basic Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1541673026
• ISBN 13: 9781541673021
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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