Christopher F Zurn

Splitsville USA

A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States

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Produktbeschreibung

Splitsville USA argues that it's time for us to break up to save representative democracy, proposing a mutually negotiated, peaceful dissolution of the current United States of America into several new nations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781032429809
• ISBN-10: 1032429801
• Artikelnr.: 67399909

Autorenporträt

Christopher F. Zurn is Professor of Philosophy at UMass Boston, USA, specializing in social and political philosophy. Along with journal articles and book chapters, he has published two monographs: Deliberative Democracy and the Institutions of Judicial Review (2007) and Axel Honneth: A Critical Theory of the Social (2015). He has also co-edited two essay collections: New Waves in Political Philosophy (2009) with Boudewijn de Bruin, and Anerkennung (2009, in German) / The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (2010, in English) with Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Prelude: Time for a US National Divorce 2 Diagnosis: Democracy Imperiled
3 Prescription: Splitsville USA 4 Alternative Prescriptions? 5 The Divorce
Decree: Details of Negotiated Dissolution 6 The Preamble's Broader
Questions for Splitsville 7 Authoring our own Destiny