Democracy incorporated : managed democracy and the specter of inverted totalitarianism / Sheldon S. Wolin.
By: Wolin, Sheldon S.
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BookPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008Description: xvii, 356 p.ISBN: 9780691135663 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Democracy -- United States | Corporate state -- United States | Political science -- History | Political science -- Philosophy -- History | Totalitarianism | Fascism | United States -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 320.973 Online resources: Table of contents only
Contents:
Myth in the making -- Totalitarianism's inversion: beginnings of the imaginary of a permanent global war -- Totalitarianism's inversion, democracy's perversion -- The new world of terror -- The utopian theory of superpower: the official version -- The dynamics of transformation -- The dynamics of the archaic -- The politics of superpower: managed democracy -- Intellectual elites against democracy -- Domestic politics in the era of superpower and empire -- Inverted totalitarianism: antecedents and precedents -- Demotic moments -- Democracy's prospects: looking backwards -- Notes.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Myth in the making -- Totalitarianism's inversion: beginnings of the imaginary of a permanent global war -- Totalitarianism's inversion, democracy's perversion -- The new world of terror -- The utopian theory of superpower: the official version -- The dynamics of transformation -- The dynamics of the archaic -- The politics of superpower: managed democracy -- Intellectual elites against democracy -- Domestic politics in the era of superpower and empire -- Inverted totalitarianism: antecedents and precedents -- Demotic moments -- Democracy's prospects: looking backwards -- Notes.
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