The trouble with democracy political modernity in the 21st century / edited by Gerard Rosich and Peter Wagner .

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : re-interpreting democracy for our time /
Gerard Rosich and Peter Wagner -- Autonomy in and between
polities : democracy and the need for collective political
selves / Gerard Rosich -- Rethinking "modern" democracy :
political modernity and constituent power / Andreas
Kalyvas -- Democratic surplus and democracy-in-failing :
on ancient and modern self-cancelation of democracy /
Nathalie Karagiannis -- Setbacks of women's emancipation
(condition, consequence, measure and ruse) / Geneviève
Fraisse -- Political modernity, democracy and state-
society relations in Latin America : a new socio-
historical problématique? / Manuel A. Garretón --
Communitarian cosmopolitanism : Argentina's recuperated
factories, neoliberal globalisation and democratic
citizenshp : an Arendtian perspective / Carlos A. Forment
-- Middle-classing in Roodepoort : unexpected sites of
post-apartheid "community" / Ivor Chipkin -- Democracy and
capitalism in Europe, Brazil and South Africa / Peter
Wagner -- From realism to activism : a critique of
resignation in political theory / Lea Ypi -- The world as
we find it : a suggestion for a democratic theory for our
times / Tracy B. Strong -- Epilogue : democracy as
capacity for self-transformation / Gerard Rosich and Peter
Wagner