Democracy, Dialogue, Memory: Expression and Affect Beyond Consensus

by Alphandary, Idit

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Title Statements

Full title :Democracy, Dialogue, Memory : Expression and Affect Beyond Consensus.

Summary

Arguing that the politics of democracy is inseparable from a notion of dialogue that emerges from conflicting and often traumatic memories, Democracy, Dialogue, Memory examines the importance of dialogue for the achievement of understanding in civil society rather than consensus, so that democratic participation and inclusion can be strengthened. With attention to the importance for marginalized communities of the ability to disclose fundamental ethnic, religious, gendered, racial, or personal and affective characteristics born of trauma, and so cease to represent "otherness," this book brings together studies from Europe, Israel and the United States of literary and visual attempts to expand dialogue with "the other," particularly where democracies are prone to vacillating between the desire to endorse otherness, and political dread of the other. A critique of the practices of forced inclusion and forced consensual negotiation, that seeks to advance dialogue as a crucial safeguard against the twin dangers of exclusion and enforced assimilation, Democracy, Dialogue, Memory will appeal to scholars with interests in political theory, political sociology, collective and contested memory and civil society at the same time as allowing scholars from the humanities and the arts to examine seminal chapters that pivot on psychoanalytical approaches to literature, film and philosophy at the borderline of political thinking.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Milton
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (205 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781351347402, 1351347403, 9781351347396, 135134739X, 9781351347389, 1351347381, 9781315122311, 1315122316
DOI:10.4324/9781315122311
oclc:on1057681084
LC Classification:JC423
Dewey Decimal:321.8

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations and tables; List of contributors; Introduction: Revising the political value of culturally versatile everyday expressions of democracy, dialogue, memory; Context; Chapters; Notes; References; PART I: Democracy and memory at the crossroads of dialogue and tolerance in everyday life; 1. Everyday dialogue, memory, and democracy; Everyday life, dialogue, and two kinds of critique; Politics, the political, and emancipation in everyday life; Poland from totalitarianism to non-liberal democracy

Coda: toward non-party non-consensual democracy?References; 2. The idea of tolerance and social dialogue in the democratic state: Remarks on Jacques Derrida's and Jürgen Habermas's views on the idea of tolerance in the modern liberal-democratic state; One; Two; Three; Four; Five; References; 3. Exception, metaphor, and political action: Arendt contra Schmitt; Notes; References; 4. Radical politics: "We the People" or "we mortals"; Notes; References; 5. Dialogue as a tool enhancing the effectiveness of the activities of NGOs in modern societies

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