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How to Escape from the Dead End of Post-Democracy? : Representation and Principle of Popular Sovereignty

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Augustín M.
Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)
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2017
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vol. 65
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issue Special Issue 1
93-111
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Discussion around the concept of post-democracy in political science partially overlaps with a long-term narrative about the crisis of democracy. While there seems to be a general consensus on the concept of post-democracy, this notion is rather controversial. The current paper analyzes the treatment of the concept of post-democracy in the works of Jacques Rancière, Jürgen Habermas, Colin Crouch and others. The paper seeks to problematize temporal and spatial reductionism present in some conceptualisations of post-democracy, pointing to the contingency, temporality and contextuality of the forms of representative democracy as a possible way out of the melancholy nostalgia for a “golden age” of democracy and a way to seek a modus vivendi of democracy and representation in new conditions.
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Political Freedom as an Open Question

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Chrobak K.
Avant
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2019
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vol. 10
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issue 1
59-76
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This essay diagnoses the condition of contemporary liberal democracies. It assumes that the current crisis of democracy is not the result of an external ideological threat, but it is the result of the lack of a coherent vision of democracy itself. The author recognises that the key symptom of the contemporary crisis is the decreasing involvement of citizens in public life and their growing reluctance to participate in public debate. He claims that the reason for this is the increasing social polarisation. The article considers two forms of polarisation: vertical (on the line: politicians–voters) and horizontal (on the line of ideological social divisions). The first form is illustrated by Colin Crouch’s considerations, while the second one by Fareed Zakaria’s thoughts. What finds its manifestation in both cases is the phenomenon of citizens’ resignation from participation in the public debate; in the first case it is because of the lack of faith in the effectiveness of this type of opiniongiving mechanism, while in the second case it is because of the lack of recognition of other political and ideological options in society. These reflections are concluded in the postulate that the basic task facing democracy today is to maintain the public sphere as open as possible, i.e. not excluding any ideological position in advance. This kind of conclusion is illustrated with the concepts of Chantal Mouffe (political perspective) and Helmuth Plessner (philosophical-anthropological perspective).
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The dissident and the spectre: reading Havel with Derrida

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Björk U.
Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)
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2022
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vol. 70
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issue Special_issue_1
105-121
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In this paper I argue that there is an affinity between the ‘dissident’ in Havel’s essay “The Power of the Powerless” and the ‘spectre’ in Derrida’s readings of Marx. Both are manifestations of a specific modern temporality that Derrida calls “disjointed”, because it is haunted by a revolutionary force and claim for justice. Both also evoke the weak messianic power inherent in Walter Benjamin’s historiography and the spectral responsibility recognised by this power, that is, our responsibility for past and future generations. In post-totalitarian Czechoslovakia, the “nonpolitical” dissident community prefigured the renewal of moral experiences of responsibility and solidarity. In contemporary discussions of democracy, the figure of the spectre is a reminder of the significance of the Marxist legacy beyond its ideological doctrine.
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Postanimacja w postdemokracji

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Mendel M.
Pedagogika Społeczna
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2015 (R. XIV)
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issue 2(56)
25-37
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Autorka argumentuje tezę, głoszącą iż w aktualnych warunkach postdemokracji, czyli ładu quasi-demokratycznego, w którym to, co demokratyczne na co dzień waży się z tym, co takie nie jest, służąc wyłącznie kapitałowi, sens ma praca na rzecz przenoszenia punktu ciężkości na stronę demokracji. Praca ta może koncentrować się w polu animacji, którą w tych warunkach można opisywać jako postanimację, z jednej strony ewidentnie podtrzymującą kondycję postdemokracji, z drugiej – owocną w działaniach na rzecz demokracji.
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In this text the author argues that the work for democracy makes sense in the contemporary reality of post-democracy (a quasi-democratic order in which democratic and non-democratic elements of social life, serving the only economic values, interplay in their everyday relationships). This work may be focused on the field of social animation, especially on the community work, which should be defined as post-animation, on the one hand acting for post-democracy and on the other being productive in building democracy.
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