

Beschreibung
The best work of democratic theory in decades. A provocation on every page, each indispensable for our times. Autorentext Anne Norton is the Stacey and Henry Jackson President's Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of se...The best work of democratic theory in decades. A provocation on every page, each indispensable for our times.
Autorentext
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.
Klappentext
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 pirates and rebels; an ethic for those who will not be mastered. Democracy is always a risky business; full of promise and danger. The promise is freedom. The danger is fear: fear of the unknown, fear of the unruly, fear of one another, fear of anarchy. Fear leads to authoritarianism. Anarchy leads to courage, to self-reliance, self-discipline, and self-rule. Liberals and conservatives look to institutions to control an unruly people. Anne Norton's vision of democracy turns on democratic people: on ethics, practices, and the courage to rule ourselves.
Inhalt
Forward
Theses for democrats
I. Anarchy, courage, democracy
II. Free people keep something wild in them
IV. The canon of Western political philosophy was forged against the people.
V. Democracies are generative. Democracies are excessive. Democrats live with open hands.
VI. Taxes are how people pay for the work they do together.
VII. Rights are born in the body.
VIII. Free People rule the law.
IX. Liberalism is a problem for democracy.
X. Force is the enemy of the free.
XI. We have not yet finished with revolution.
XII. The time of the democratic is past, present and future.
XIII. People who rule themselves look both forward and back.
XIV. Free people carry the democratic with them.
XV. The friends and enemies of the democratic and how to deal with them.
XVI. Let us walk like gods.
Appendix of Imperatives
Acknowledgements
