Democracy and Representation

The Meaning of Eric Voegelin’s Theory of Representation

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The current crisis of liberal democracy has become the focus of constitutional, historical, philosophical, theological, and political analysis. Populism and the growing antipathy toward political elites and their dominance in popular representations are increasingly calling into question the nature of representation and the relationship between representation and democracy. The threat posed to representative democracies by authoritarian political leaders was described by the famous political scientist Eric Voegelin (1901–1985) after the overcoming of fascism in Europe with the words: “If a government is nothing but representative in the constitutional sense, a representative ruler in the existential sense will sooner or later make an end of it; and quite possibly the new existential ruler will not be too representative in the constitutional sense”.
Copyright Year:
2023
The current crisis of liberal democracy has become the focus of constitutional, historical, philosophical, theological and political analysis. Populism and the growing aversion to political elites and their dominance in the parliaments are increasingly calling into question the nature of representation and the relationship between representation and democracy.
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978-3-8467-6753-5
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13 Mar 2023
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978-3-7705-6753-9
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09 Jun 2023
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Giuliana Parotto ist Professorin für Politische Philosophie an der Universität Triest. Sie hat sich u.a. mit dem Werk von Eric Voegelin und Hans Urs von Balthasar sowie mit medialer Führerschaft in zeitgenössischen Demokratien befasst. Daneben hat sie an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München sowie in vielen anderen europäischen Städten gelehrt. In deutscher Sprache erschien 2009 ihr Buch "Silvio Berlusconi. Der doppelte Körper des Politikers" bei Brill|Fink.
Advisory Board:
Ignacio Carbajosa
Cathrine Chalier
Gabriele de Anna
Giuseppe Duso
Jürgen Gebhardt
Alessandra Gerolin
John von Heyking
Josep Monserrat Molas
Peter J. Opitz
Cyril O'Regan
William Petropulos
Matthias Riedl
Christian Schwaabe
Harald Seubert
Bjørn Thomassen
Mario Wintersteiger
Harald Wydra
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Publisher:
Brill | Fink
Language:
English
Pages:
XX + 341 Seiten
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846767535