Redirecting Radical Democracy: From Antagonism to Alienation - Couverture souple

Helander, Sofia Anceau

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1399522175 ISBN 13 : 9781399522175

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Today, alienation manifests itself primarily as precarisation and deprofessionalisation. When the subject’s work security or professional autonomy is undermined, relations – not only to others, but also to one's self – can become inhibited. This book shows that while alienation poses serious problems to modern democracies, it is a form of social suffering that is particularly difficult for democratic theory – preoccupied by the political – to address. The book highlights that not even radical democracy, which emphasises the importance of social resistance, can include the alienated. The author shows this is not merely due to the historical emergence of radical democracy and its turn away from traditional socialism, but also to a deeper problem in the theory itself. Helander argues that in order to address alienation, radical democracy – as both normative theory and political strategy, must be reformulated starting with its deep assumptions about the subject.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sofia Anceau Helander is Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Government at Uppsala University, specialising in political theory and social movement studies. She has previously studied social movements in Sweden and India, publishing in Journal of Developing Societies, and Revista Internacional de Sociología. This is her first monograph.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1399522175
• ISBN 13: 9781399522175
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible