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. 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.