Postmodern Ethics, Multiple Selves, and the Future of Democracy

This article starts with a brief overview of well-known criticisms of modern democracy in order to suggest a different approach: reflecting on the principles of Western democracy in the basic horizon of the problematic of the self and wondering if the ‘multiple’ self should not be conceived as the s...

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Main Author: Iftode, Cristian (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: CEEOL [2015]
In: Journal for the study of religions and ideologies
Year: 2015, Volume: 14, Issue: 42, Pages: 3-26
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Democracy / The Postmodern / Diversity / Biopolitics
RelBib Classification:NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics
Further subjects:B Pluralism
B relationship to the self
B Fundamentalism
B Democracy
B multiple self
B Biopolitics
B Care
B postmodern ethics
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