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Democracy, Authority, Narcissism

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Ross, Daniel
Keywords
authority
peace policy
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Political ethics
Methods of ethics
Philosophical ethics

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/177928
Abstract
"‘Democracy’ fi nds itself today in a paradoxical condition. On the one hand, it remains the unsurpassable horizon of our time. Th is thought may generally be true if one takes ‘democracy’ as the system of representative parliamentarism, in its contrast with the declining fortunes of, say, Marxist political practice. It is absolutely true if by ‘democracy’ one means the thought that the sole ground of sovereignty is ‘the people’. Cast in these widest of terms, democracy is equally inclusive of liberalism, socialism, communism, and nationalism. Even National Socialism imagined itself in terms of direct mutual communication between Führer and Volk. But it is also the case that ‘democracy’, the very word democracy, has expanded to fi ll the space left by the decline of all those other modern species of popular sovereignty. From the Left to the Right ‘democracy’ is the concept governing political imagination. Th is is so even if the beginning of the 21st century has also witnessed the return of the repressed, that is, theocratic politics, both Christian and Islamic. On the other hand, if ‘democracy’ remains the horizon beyond which it seems impossible to think, it is nevertheless and without doubt a concept in crisis. Where is a self-assured ‘democracy’, content and comfortable with itself, trusting in its own foundation and practice? Where does democracy exist as the assured expression of truths taken to be self-evident? As though responding to this lack of assurance, ‘democratic’ government (which always claimed a monopoly on legitimate violence) seems progressively to be expanding the kinds of violence undertaken in its name, if it is not indeed the case that violence—under the umbrella heading ‘security’—is becoming the very means and end of the state. Even as ‘democracy’ crowds out its competitors, it is less and less clear that the word continues to be eff ective, that the concept continues to hold potential. If modern conceptions of democratic sovereignty are born of the decline and secularization of theological sovereignty, that is, of a loss of putative certainty, then the uncertainty of democratic foundation continues to reveal itself ever more transparently. Democracy has become default politics, the political default position, in every sense."
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2006-01-06
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