During, Simon

Against Democracy

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ISBN 13:
9780823242559
author:
During, Simon
format:
Paperback
publisher:
Fordham University Press
language:
English
Publication Year:
2012
Pages:
192
Dimensions:
22.9 x 15.2 centimetres (0.27 kg
Genre:
Literary Criticism, American
Condition:
New
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£24.83

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Against Democracy: Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations by Simon During explores the relationship between democracy and literature. This book argues that democracy has become fundamental to everyday life, but the current system does not satisfy legitimate tests for evaluation. Literature's conservative tendencies and its capacity to uncover hidden democracies in everyday life are now a resource for those critical of the current political, cultural, and economic structures. Drawing on political theory, intellectual history, and close reading techniques, Against Democracy offers new accounts of conservatism and innovative interpretations of writers such as Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E. M. Forster, and Saul Bellow. By examining the ethos of refusing democracy and literature's contribution to this ethos, this book provides a nuanced understanding of how life might be lived both within and outside democratic state capitalism.

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