- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Editor’s Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Political Theory as a Vocation -
Chapter 2 Political Theory -
Chapter 3 Transgression, Equality, and Voice -
Chapter 4 Norm and Form -
Chapter 5 Fugitive Democracy -
Chapter 6 Hobbes and the Epic Tradition of Political Theory -
Chapter 7 Hobbes and the Culture of Despotism -
Chapter 8 On Reading Marx Politically -
Chapter 9 Max Weber -
Chapter 10 Reason in Exile -
Chapter 11 Hannah Arendt -
Chapter 12 Hannah Arendt and the Ordinance of Time -
Chapter 13 The Liberal/Democratic Divide -
Chapter 14 On the Theory and Practice of Power -
Chapter 15 Democracy in the Discourse of Postmodernism -
Chapter 16 Postmodern Politics and the Absence of Myth -
Chapter 17 The Destructive Sixties and Postmodern Conservatism -
Chapter 18 From Progress to Modernization -
Chapter 19 Editorial -
Chapter 20 What Revolutionary Action Means Today -
Chapter 21 The People’s Two Bodies -
Chapter 22 The New Public Philosophy -
Chapter 23 Democracy, Difference, and Re-Cognition -
Chapter 24 Constitutional Order, Revolutionary Violence, and Modern Power -
Chapter 25 Agitated Times - Sources
- Index
Democracy in the Discourse of Postmodernism
Democracy in the Discourse of Postmodernism
- Chapter:
- (p.300) Chapter 15 Democracy in the Discourse of Postmodernism
- Source:
- Fugitive Democracy
- Author(s):
Sheldon S. Wolin
, Nicholas Xenos- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
This chapter examines the work of Richard Rorty, perhaps the leading philosopher, or lapsed philosopher, of postmodernism. His writings are one of the few, perhaps the only, major attempts to ally postmodernism with liberal democracy, rather than with Marxism or social democracy. He has supplied a focus to his writings that is as remarkable in its way, and as revealing, as the opening lines of the Communist Manifesto. The right questions, he writes in postmodernese, are “like” “What is it to inhabit a rich twentieth-century democratic society?” and “How can an inhabitant of such a society be more than the enactor of a role in a previously written script?” The first question would seem to be simply answered by saying, “Enjoy it.” But the second question carries a note of dissatisfaction; it is certainly not outrage or even sharply critical.
Keywords: Richard Rorty, political theory, political philosophy, postmodernism, democracy
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Editor’s Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Political Theory as a Vocation -
Chapter 2 Political Theory -
Chapter 3 Transgression, Equality, and Voice -
Chapter 4 Norm and Form -
Chapter 5 Fugitive Democracy -
Chapter 6 Hobbes and the Epic Tradition of Political Theory -
Chapter 7 Hobbes and the Culture of Despotism -
Chapter 8 On Reading Marx Politically -
Chapter 9 Max Weber -
Chapter 10 Reason in Exile -
Chapter 11 Hannah Arendt -
Chapter 12 Hannah Arendt and the Ordinance of Time -
Chapter 13 The Liberal/Democratic Divide -
Chapter 14 On the Theory and Practice of Power -
Chapter 15 Democracy in the Discourse of Postmodernism -
Chapter 16 Postmodern Politics and the Absence of Myth -
Chapter 17 The Destructive Sixties and Postmodern Conservatism -
Chapter 18 From Progress to Modernization -
Chapter 19 Editorial -
Chapter 20 What Revolutionary Action Means Today -
Chapter 21 The People’s Two Bodies -
Chapter 22 The New Public Philosophy -
Chapter 23 Democracy, Difference, and Re-Cognition -
Chapter 24 Constitutional Order, Revolutionary Violence, and Modern Power -
Chapter 25 Agitated Times - Sources
- Index
