The Weariness of Democracy Confronting the Failure of Liberal Democr
Liberal democracy today, having aligned itself with capitalism, is producing a generalized feeling of weariness and disillusionment with government among the citizenry of many countries. Because of a decades-long march of globalized capitalism, econ
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The Weariness of Democracy
Obed Frausto • Jason Powell Sarah Vitale Editors
The Weariness of Democracy Confronting the Failure of Liberal Democracy
Editors Obed Frausto Honors College Ball State University Muncie, IN, USA
Jason Powell Honors College Ball State University Muncie, IN, USA
Sarah Vitale Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Ball State University Muncie, IN, USA
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Preface
The idea for this collection emerged from a symposium on Philosophy, Politics, and Social Science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City in March 2014, in which Patrice Vermeren, Ambrosio Velasco, Arturo Chávez, and I participated. At the symposium, Patrice Vermeren delivered a compelling paper on democracy and utopia, in which he discussed Miguel Abensour and Jacques Rancière’s conceptions of democracy. He inspired me to investigate the ideas of utopian democracy and dissensus in democracy. From that encounter, I submitted a proposal to be a guest editor for Acta Sociológica, a Mexican journal in sociology. My proposal of the special topic “la derrota de la democracia en la cultura de la ciencia y la tecnología” (“The Defeat of Democracy in the Culture of Science and Technology”) was accepted. For the special issue, I translated Bruno Latour’s article
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