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In turning to the underlying cultural context of democracy, this book goes beyond the routine and familiar formal and insitutional descriptions of the democratic polity. It sets out to delineate a substantial rather than precedural conception of democracy and express it in historical as well as analytical, descriptive as also normative terms, providing as overview of the political debates of our time, with original interpretations of fundamental political concepts. A collection of essays by distinguished scholars from across disciplines and acros the world, it outlines the radical points of view which are either directly critical or contain the philosophical source of criticism of some of the assumptions and commitments of the orthodoxpolitical Enlightenment. In offering illuminating accounts of the political thoughts of thinkers as varied as Edmund Burke, Karl Marx, Mahatma Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, John Dewey
ISBN - 9780415589918
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Pages : 248
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