Abstract
AbstractThe book’s concluding chapter turns to the profound challenges confronting democracy in the 2020s. The post-foundationalist perspective that guides the analyses of earlier chapters is here compared to the post-truth era’s radical questioning of democratic norms. Does the post-foundational refusal to rule on the shape of democracy not amount precisely to the attitude of ‘radical indifference’ that today appears to imperil democracy’s very future? Current debates around democratic norms and the shape of democracy in an age of ‘epistemic chaos’ are assessed for their implications for the book’s analytical orientation. Attention is then turned to a number of recent musical models of democracy, which depart from the idealism of earlier approaches, reflecting instead the anxiety that is now widely felt around democracy’s prospects in the digitally mediated age.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York