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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Rewriting democracy : cultural politics in postmodernity
1. Democracy 2. Postmodernism - Political aspects
I. Ermarth, Elizabeth Deeds, 1939-
321.8
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rewriting democracy : cultural politics in postmodernity / edited by Elizabeth Deeds
Ermarth.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-4972-4 1. Democracy. 2. Postmodernism. 3.
Pluralism (Social sciences) 4. Social change. I. Ermarth, Elizabeth Deeds.
JC423.R4532 2006
321.8--dc22
2006031445
ISBN 9780754649724 (hbk)
ISBN 9781138271142 (pbk)
Mark Bevir has taught political science in the United Kingdom and the United States, and is currently at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Madras, India (1990-92), and a Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin (1999). He has published widely on British politics and political theory, on history and theory, and on the political bearing of work by such French philosophers important to postmodern theory as Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida. His books include The Logic of the History of Ideas (1999) and co-author (with R.A.W. Rhodes) of Interpreting British Governance (2003).
Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth teaches and writes on the cultural history of Eurocentric democracies: the conditions that have made them possible, the foundational challenges they now face, and the new tools of thought required by paradigmatic change. She has taught at major universities in the US and UK and has held several distinguished appointments including as Saintsbury Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Her five books include a two-volume study of the emergence and current mutation of modernity and its Culture of Representation: Realism and Consensus (Part One, 1998; 1983) and Sequel to History (1992). In a series of subsequent articles for such journals as History and Theory, Cultural Values, New Literary History, Time and Society she pursues the practical implications across the range of practice of the departures from modernity. She has been active in politics, initially as founding Chairperson of the New Hampshire Womens Political Caucus and continuing in various current engagements.
Kristyn Gorton teaches in the School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University where she lectures on literary and cultural theory, feminism and postmodernism, popular culture and Lacan. She has written on the problematic relation between feminism and Lacanian psychoanalysis, and has published in print and online journals essays on Marguerite Duras, on Diane Elam, on Third Wave Feminism and on feminism and the media in Journal of British Cinema and Television, Diegesis , and other journals. She is currently writing a monograph for Palgrave titled Theorising Desire: From Freud to Feminism to Film and a book-length project for Edinburgh University Press titled Media Audiences: Television, Meaning and Emotion.
Jeremy F. Lane teaches French at the University of Nottingham. He writes and publishes on post-war French culture, society and thought, with particular emphasis on ethnology and sociology in the era of French late capitalism. He publishes widely on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, including his Pierre Bourdieu: A Critical Introduction (2000) which deals with the cultural, economic and political context of Bourdieus work. His essay will appear as part of his next book, Bourdieus Politics: Problems and Possibilities forthcoming from Routledge.
Chantal Mouffe is a political theorist, philosopher and historian who divides her time between Paris and London and lectures widely in Europe on democratic politics. She teaches at the University of Paris, where she is a member of the Collge Internationale de Philosophie, and at the University of Westminster where she consults for the Center for the Study of Democracy, a non-governmental organization based in London. She has coauthored with Ernesto Laclau Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (1985) and has edited and contributed to Gramsci and Marxist Theory (1979), Dimensions of Radical Democracy: Pluralism, Citizenship, Community (1992), and The Return of the Political (1993).
Edward W. Said taught English at Columbia University and was well known as a cultural critic and commentator on encounters between Occident and Orient, and on problems in Palestine where, for 14 years (1977-91), he was a member of the Palestine National Council. He is the author of 16 books which have been translated into 26 languages, including Intention and Method (1975), Orientalism (1978), The Question of Palestine (1979), The World, The Text and the Critic (1983), Musical Elaborations (1991), Culture and Imperialism (1993), Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process (1996), and Entre Guerre et Pais (1997). He wrote regularly for newspapers in Europe, the U.S. and the Arab world, he lectured at institutions around the world, and he received honors from the institutions of the University of Cambridge, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Bir Zeit University, and University of Michigan.
Fran Tonkiss teaches sociology at The London School of Economics and Political Science, and has taught at Goldsmiths and City University, London. Her research interests are in social and political theory, economic sociology and urban studies. Her books include Contemporary Economic Sociology: Globalisation, Production, Inequality (Routledge, 2006), Space, the City and Social Theory (Polity, 2005) and is co-editor (with Andrew Passey) of Trust and Civil Society (Macmillan, 2000) and co-author (with Don Slater) of Market Society: Markets and Modern Social Theory (Polity, 2000). She publishes on issues of social justice and equality (including G. Bridge and S. Watson, eds., Companion to the City , 2000); on trust and social capital (including Sociology Vol 33, 1999); and on markets and marketization and the contemporary city (in S. Pile and N. Thrift, eds., City, A-Z (2000).
Thomas Vargish has taught English at Dartmouth College, the Universities of Maryland, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Uppsala, at the Senior Executive Program of the Sloan School of Management at MIT, and at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He was a founding Director of the Dartmouth Institute. His publications include two books on Victorian literature and culture and two co-authored books (with physicist Delo Mook) on the relationships between science, art, and narrative during the early twentieth century. Inside Relativity (1987) explains relativity physics without equations and Inside Modernism (1999) seeks to unfold the interdisciplinary principles that allow a fuller understanding of phenomena such as modernism.
