Reimagining Democratic Theory for Social Individuals
Abstract. The Western conception of the individual as a rational, self-directing agent is a mythology that organizes and distorts religion, science, economics, and politics. It produces an abstracted and atomized form of engagement that is fatal to collective self-governance. And it turns democracy...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2011
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Zygon
Year: 2011, Volume: 46, Issue: 1, Pages: 224-245 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Agency B Rationality B Individualism B Social Construction B Dependency B Commodification B collectivity B Consumerism B self-governance B social fragmentation B Sexuality B Democracy B Equality B Autonomy |
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