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Anne Phillips - Democracy and Difference - 9780745610979 - V9780745610979
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Democracy and Difference

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Description for Democracy and Difference Paperback. A new emphasis on diversity and difference is displacing older myths of nation or community. A new attention to gender, race, language or religion is disrupting earlier preoccupations with class. But the welcome extended to heterogeneity can bring with it a disturbing fragmentation and closure. Num Pages: 192 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFFK; JPA; JPHV; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 280.
A new emphasis on diversity and difference is displacing older myths of nation or community. A new attention to gender, race, language or religion is disrupting earlier preoccupations with class. But the welcome extended to heterogeneity can bring with it a disturbing fragmentation and closure. Can we develop a vision of democracy through difference: a politics that neither denies group identities nor capitulates to them?

In this volume, Anne Phillips develops the feminist challenge to exclusionary versions of democracy, citizenship and equality. Relating this to the crisis in socialist theory, the growing unease with the pretensions of Enlightenment rationality, ... Read more

Through her critical discussions of recent feminist and socialist theory Anne Phillips rejects this democracy of denial. She also warns, however, of the dangers on the other side. The simpler celebrations of diversity risk freezing group differences as they are, encouraging a patchwork of local identities from which people can speak only to themselves. Her arguments then combine in a powerful restatement of the case for a more active and participatory democracy. It is only through enhanced communication and discussion that people can respect and learn from their differences.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745610979
SKU
V9780745610979
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About Anne Phillips
Anne Phillips is Professor of Politics at London Guildhall University.

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