L. Quill

Secrets and Democracy (eBook, PDF)

From Arcana Imperii to WikiLeaks

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Secrets and Democracy develops a new approach to understanding the centrality of secrecy to political life. From the ancient world to the modern, this book considers the growing importance of secrets, the dilemmas this poses to conceptions of democracy and the challenges that collecting secrets poses to publicity and privacy in the network society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137313010
• Artikelnr.: 40807966

Autorenporträt

Lawrence Quill is Professor of Political Science at San José State University, San José, USA where he teaches courses in political theory. He is the author of Liberty after Liberalism (London: Palgrave, 2006) and Civil Disobedience: (Un)Common Sense in Mass Democracies (London: Palgrave, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Visible Darkness 2. Theory's Secret History 3. Liberal Secrets 4. Secrecy and the Liberal State 5. Privacy and Secrecy 6. Life After Wikileaks 7. Conclusion: Secrecy and Silence