Portal:Democratic Theory
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- 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.
