Democracy or Bonapartism
Two Centuries of War on Democracy
(Sprache: Englisch)
How democracy became a form of soft authoritarian rule
The history of the advent of universal suffrage is a fraught one. As late as the mid-twentieth century, it was still impeded by forms of censitary, racial and sexual discrimination, which proved...
The history of the advent of universal suffrage is a fraught one. As late as the mid-twentieth century, it was still impeded by forms of censitary, racial and sexual discrimination, which proved...
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How democracy became a form of soft authoritarian ruleThe history of the advent of universal suffrage is a fraught one. As late as the mid-twentieth century, it was still impeded by forms of censitary, racial and sexual discrimination, which proved especially stubborn in countries with the most rooted liberal tradition. Moreover, no sooner had it been achieved than universal suffrage was subject to internal depletion that reduced the exercise of political rights to the acclamation of a leader vested with very wide powers.
In and through a complex historical process, Bonapartism has assumed its current 'soft' form, involving orderly competition and succession and resorting to the iron fist only in emergency situations. The electoral system most conducive to this regime seems to be one involving single-member constituencies. Cutting out organized parties with programmes and, courtesy also of the gigantic concentration of the mass media, depriving the subaltern classes of any political expression, it reduces 'democracy' to a contest between competing leaders, who are the interpreters exclusively oflocal realities or interests, over and above which towers the figure of thenation's charismatic leader. The United States represents the primary country-laboratory of the 'soft Bonapartism' that has also emerged in Italy, and which seems set to become the political regime of our time.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Democracy or Bonapartism “
Foreword1. The Fight for the Vote: A Tortuous and Still-Unfinished History
2. A New Tutor for the ‘Childlike’ Multitude
3. An Alternative to Property Qualifications: The Origins of Bonapartism, from America to France
4. The Trumpets of the Ruling Classes and the Bells of the Subaltern
5. The Bonapartist Regime’s Baptism of Fire
6. Universal Suffrage, Proportional Representation and the Reaction Against It
7. The Twentieth Century: Between Emancipation and Disemancipation
8. The Triumph of Soft Bonapartism
Index
Autoren-Porträt von Domenico Losurdo
Domenico Losurdo (14 November 1941 – 28 June 2018) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Urbino, Italy. He is the author of many books in Italian, German, French and Spanish. in English he published Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns, Heidegger and the Ideology of War, and Liberalism.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Domenico Losurdo
- 2024, 304 Seiten, Maße: 16,2 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Übersetzer: David Broder
- Verlag: VERSO
- ISBN-10: 1784787310
- ISBN-13: 9781784787318
- Erscheinungsdatum: 16.04.2024
Sprache:
Englisch
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