Politics of Dialogue: Non-Consensual Democracy and Critical Community by Koczanowicz, Leszek

Politics of Dialogue: Non-Consensual Democracy and Critical Community (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781399565929)

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Politics of Dialogue: Non-Consensual Democracy and Critical Community by Koczanowicz, Leszek

Politics of Dialogue: Non-Consensual Democracy and Critical Community

$24.95
Politics of Dialogue: Non-Consensual Democracy and Critical Community by Koczanowicz, Leszek

Politics of Dialogue: Non-Consensual Democracy and Critical Community

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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Contemporary democracy is in crisis. People believe less and less in a system of democratic institutions that can cope with today's social problems. Leszek Koczanowicz sheds new light on this problem, using the ideas of M. M. Bakhtin and others to show that dialogue in democracy can transcend both antagonistic and consensual perspectives.After an overview of the history of the dialogue/ antagonism opposition as it is embedded in modern political theory, and the concept of dialogue in contemporary political theory, the author moves on to demonstrate that Bakhtin's theory of dialogue can introduce a new quality into political theory, allowing us to overcome the liberalism/ communitarianism debate. To conclude, he introduces a concept of 'critical community' to show that collective identities can be constructed in critical dialogue with the tradition and values of community.

Author: Leszek Koczanowicz
ISBN-10: 1399565923
ISBN-13: 9781399565929
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2026
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
By Leszek Koczanowicz
By Leszek Koczanowicz
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Leszek Koczanowicz is Associate Professor in the Warsaw School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland.

He is the author of Analyses of Human Action (Wroclaw University Press, 1990), G.H. Mead (Wroclaw University Press, 1992), Individual - Activity - Society: The Concept of the Self in American Pragmatism (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of Polish Academy of Science Press, 1994), Community and Emancipations: The Discussion of the Post-conventional Society (Lower Silesia University Press, 2005) and Politics of Time: Dynamics of Identity in Post-Communist Poland (Berghahn Books, 2008) [in English]. He is co-editor, with Beth J. Singer, of Democracy and Totalitarian Experience (Rodopi, 2005) [in English].

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