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Who counts? : on democracy, power, and the incalculable

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Abstract

In this chapter the aim is twofold: to reckon with the present paradigms of "globalization" and "technologization" that pose novel problems of magnitude for democracy, and to delineate the crux of the historical-political problems that obtain under these paradigms. Schmidt asks: Can democracy today adapt its power and escape its totalizing tendencies such that the singularity of the individual is recovered and meaningfully sustained?
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPhilosophy and the Return of Violence: Studies from this Widening Gyre
EditorsNathan Eckstrand, Christopher Yates
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherContinuum
Pages31-43
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9781441152725
Publication statusPublished - 2011

Keywords

  • democracy
  • philosophy
  • violence

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