Grollios - Negativity and democracy in critical theory: dialectics from karl marx to open marxism

Edited by David Chandler and Paulina Tambakaki (both University of Westminster)

Advisory Board: Benjamin Barber (City University of New York), Rajeev Bhargava (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies), Bhikhu Parekh (House of Lords), Fred Dallmayr (University of Notre Dame), John Keane (University of Sydney), Chantal Mouffe (University of Westminster).

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Democracy is being re-thought almost everywhere today: with the widespread questioning of the rationalist assumptions of classical liberalism, and the implications this has for representational competition; with the Arab Spring, destabilizing many assumptions about the geographic spread of democracy; with the deficits of democracy apparent in the Euro-zone crisis, especially as it affects Greece and Italy; with democracy increasingly understand as a process of social empowerment and equalization, blurring the lines of division between formal and informal spheres; and with growing demands for democracy to be reformulated to include the needs of those currently marginalized or even to include the representation of non-human forms of life with whom we share our planet.

Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory publishes state of the art theoretical reflection on the problems and prospects of democratic theory when many of the traditional categories and concepts are being reworked and rethought in our globalized and complex times.

The series is published in cooperation with the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, London, UK.

1 Nations and Democracy

New Theoretical Perspectives

Amanda Machin

2 Reclaiming Democracy

Judgment, Responsibility and the Right to Politics

Edited by Albena Azmanova and Mihaela Mihai

3 Performing Citizenship

Social Movements across the Globe

Edited by Inbal Ofer and Tamar Groves

4 Constrained Elitism and Contemporary Democratic Theory

Timothy Kersey

5 Democracy and Justice

Reading Derrida in Istanbul

Agnes Czajka

6 Negativity and Democracy

Marxism and the Critical Theory Tradition

Vasilis Grollios

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