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Democracy and Populism
This intensely interesting—and troubling—book is the product of a lifetime of reflection and study of democracy. In it, John Lukacs addresses the questions of how our democracy has changed and why we have become vulnerable to the shallowest possible demagoguery. Lukacs contrasts the political systems, movements, and ideologies that have bedeviled the twentieth century: democracy, Liberalism, nationalism, fascism, Bolshevism, National Socialism, populism. Reflecting on American democracy, Lukacs describes its evolution from the eighteenth century to its current form—a dangerous and possibly irreversible populism. This involves, among other things, the predominance of popular sentiment over what used to be public opinion. This devolution has happened through the gigantic machinery of publicity, substituting propaganda—and entertainment—for knowledge, and ideology for a sense of history. It is a kind of populism that relies on nationalism and militarism to hold society together. Lukacs's observations are original, biting, timely, sure to inspire lively debate about the precarious state of American democracy today.
Contemporary Sociological Theory
This volume is designed as a basic text for upper level and graduate courses in contemporary sociological theory. Most sociology programs require their majors to take at least one course in sociological theory, sometimes two. A typical breakdown is between classical and contemporary theory. Theory is perhaps one of the bro- est areas of sociological inquiry and serves as a foundation or framework for more specialized study in specific substantive areas of the field. In addition, the study of sociological theory can readily be related to various aspects of other social science disciplines as well. From the very beginning sociology has been characterized by alternative theoretical perspectives...
Gazeta Lwowska
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WIADOMOŚĆ OD CESARZA
Autor niezwykle kompetentnie, w formie eseju, omawia filozoficzne założenia analizy prawa. Rekonstruuje filozofię analityczną na dwa sposoby: przedstawiając historię instytucji zaangażowanych w tworzenie dzieł zaliczanych do tego nurtu (podejście historyczno-instytucjonalne), a także poszukując minimum założeń podzielanych przez jego przedstawicieli (podejście epistemiczno-metodologiczne). Analizę tę należy uznać za przedsięwzięcie pionierskie w polskiej literaturze prawniczej. Ostatecznie o przyszłości polskiej filozofii analitycznej zadecyduje, zdaniem Autora, rozstrzygnięcie sporu między fundacjonalizmem i antyfundacjonalizmem. Zaletą odrzucenia fundacjonalizmu j...
National Constitutional Identity and European Integration
Over the past few years, 'national constitutional identity' has become the new buzzword in European constitutionalism. Much has been written about the concept involving the Member States' national constitutional identities: it has been welcomed for (finally) accommodating constitutional particularities in EU law, demonized for potentially disintegrating the EU, and wielded as a 'sword' by certain constitutional courts. Scholars, judges, and advocates in general have rendered the concept currently so fashionable and, yet, so ambivalent, that an in-depth analysis is warranted to put some order into the intense debate over constitutional identity. This collection brings together a series of con...
Pisma
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Constitutional Imaginaries
This book offers a social theoretical analysis of imaginaries as constituent social forces of positive law and politics. Constitutional imaginaries invite constitutional and political theorists, philosophers and sociologists to rethink the concept of constitution as the normative legal limitation and control of political power. They show that political constitutions include societal forces impossible to contain by legal norms and political institutions. The constitution of society as one polity defined by the unity of topos-ethnos-nomos, that is the unity of territory, people and their laws, informed the rise of modern nations and nationalisms as much as constitutional democratic statehood a...
