Democratic culture: historical and philosophical essays /
edited by Akeel Bilgrami
- New Delhi: Routledge, 2011.
- ix,: 235 p.
- Critical interventions in theory and praxis. .
Contents : - Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface;-- 1. Liberal Democracy and its Critics: Some Voices from East and West;-- 2. Value, Enchantment and the Mentality of Democracy: Some Distant Perspectives from Gandhi;-- 3. Politics, Experience and Cognitive Enslavement: Gandhi's Hind Swaraj;-- 4. Moral Perfection and Political Participation: The Indian 'Millions' in Gandhi's Hind Swaraj;-- 5. Politics and Violence: Gandhi's Ambivalence to Democracy;-- 6. Pragmatism and Deepened Democracy: Ambedkar between Dewey and Unger;-- 7. Constitutional Democracy and Hindu Nationalism;-- 8. Why Did Burke Impeach Hastings?-- 9. Whither European Enlightenment?-- 10. Popular Festivals, Populist Visual Culture and Modi Masks;-- 11. Globalization, Culture and Education; Bibliography; About the Editor; Contributors; Index.
A collection of essays by distinguished scholars, this book delineates a substantial conception of democracy, the great promise as well as the pitfalls of a democratic mentality and culture. These essays go beyond the institutional and formal descriptions of democracy to its underlying cultural context - expressed both historically and analytically, descriptively and normatively.
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