Portal:Democratic Theory

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Why Democratic Theory?

• Foundations
  • Etienne de la Boetie. The Politics of Obedience: the Discourse of Voluntary Servitude. Black Rose.
  • Hobbes. Leviathan. Norton.
  • Locke. Two Treatises of Government. Cambridge.
  • Spinoza. Theological Political Treatise; Political Treatise. Cambridge.
  • Rousseau. On the Social Contract. Hackett.
  • Plato. The Republic.
  • Aristotle. On Politics.

• Constitutionalism and Sovereignty
  • Giorgio Agamben. State of Exception. Chicago.
  • Walter Benjamin. “Critique of Violence.” In One Way Street. Verso.
  • Derrida. Force of Law: The ‘Mystical Foundation of Authority’” In Acts of Religion. Routledge.
  • Carl Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy. MIT.

• Liberalism and Democracy
  • Wendy Brown. Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire. Princeton
  • John Durham Peters. Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition. Chicago.

• The Problem of Representation
  • Pitkin, The Concept of Representation. California.
  • Melissa Williams. Voice, Trust and Memory. Princeton.

• Deliberative Democracy and its Critics
  • Habermas, Between Facts and Norms. MIT.
  • Habermas, The Inclusion of the Other. MIT.
  • Bohman and Rehg, eds., Deliberative Democracy. MIT.
  • Seyla Benhabib. ed. Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political. Princeton.
  • Ranciere. Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy. Minnesota.

• Democratic Compositions
  • Jodi Dean. Democracy and other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics. Duke.
  • Michael Hardt. Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence. Verso.
  • Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State.
  • Ernesto Laclau. On Populist Reason.