Democracy, so challenged today, is one of those things whose consolidation and improvement we do not exactly know what it requires from us: indignation against its enemies or serene confidence in its resilience? Are its ills due to the incompetence of the leaders or the stupidity of the masses? To what extent can we trust those who claim to defend it?
The history of democracy has always been accompanied by this type of dilemmas, which seems to indicate much about its nature, that unstable balance in which the principles that characterize it are articulated and renegotiated.
In this book, we do not talk about its tumultuous history but about its uncertain future. If democracy is a form of government open to questioning and renegotiation of what was taken for granted, the reflection on it is no less obliged to review its concepts, practices, and forecasts.
The prestigious magazine The New Observer dedicated its latest issue especially to the 25 great thinkers of the world, among whom was the Basque philosopher Daniel Innerarity (Bilbao, 1959), author of this book. Innerarity is a professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Zaragoza and recently received the first prize for his essay on the book The Invisible Society, a philosophical guide to ‘clarify the world we live in,’ as the author explains. Likewise, Daniel Innerarity received the National Essay Award in 2003 for The Transformation of Politics.
Number of pages: 424
Publisher: Galaxia Gutenberg
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9791388019494
Price: 22.80 euros
