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This book focuses on Andrew Arato 's democratic theory and its relevance to contemporary issues such as processes of democratization, civil society, constitution-making, and the modern Executive.
Andrew Arato is -both globally and disciplinarily- a prominent thinker in the fields of democratic theory, constitutional law, and comparative politics, influencing several generations of scholars. This is the first volume to systematically addresses his democratic theory. Including contributions from leading scholars such as Hubertus Buchstein, Jose Casanova, Dick Howard, Andreas Kalyas, Janos Kis, Michel Rosenfeld, and William Scheuerman, this book is organized around three major areas of Arato?'s influence on contemporary political and social thought. The first section offers a comprehensive view of Arato 's scholarship from his early work on critical theory and Western Marxism to his current research on constitution-making and its application. The second section shifts its focus from the previous, comprehensive approach, to a much more specific one: Arato?'s widespread influence on the study of civil society in democratization processes in Latin America. The third section includes a previously unpublished work, A conceptual history of dictatorship (and its rivals, ) one of the few systematic interrogations on the meaning of a political form of fundamental relevance in the contemporary world.
"Critical Theory and Democracy" will be of interest to critical and social theorists, and all Arato scholars.
Critical Theory and Democracy Civil society, dictatorship, and constitionalism in
Andrew Arato's democratic theory
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Contents
Notes on contributors
Introduction: the political and social thought of Andrew Arato
Part
I From critical theory to constitution making: the contemporary relevance of Arato’s democratic theory
1 Politics and anti- politics
2 Constitutionalism in fragmented societies: the integrative function of constitutions
3 The concept of “self- binding”
in constitutional theory
4 Popular sovereignty: the classical doctrine and a revised account
5 Palestinians in Israel: the constitutional debates
Part
II Civil society, populism, and the modern executive: Arato’s intellectual influence in the Americas
6 The concept of civil society and the Latin American debate on democratic innovation
7 Civil society in Latin America: from the excluded other to democratic deepening
8 Between authoritarianism and democracy in Latin America’s
re- founding revolutions
9 The bad uses of the concept of populism in Latin America
10 A trickling fountain or a devastating torrent: Andrew Arato’s theory of the modern republican executive
Part
III Arato’s theory of modern dictatorship
Editors’ introduction
Conceptual history of dictatorship (and its rivals)
Appendix: Andrew Arato’s bibliography
Index
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