· “Moths never reach the moon, but they navigate by it; we humans may never reach democracy, Astra Taylor tells us, but we navigate by its ideals. This is a beautiful, revelatory book about ideas and how they matter in everyday life, by the only writer who could herself navigate so gracefully among factory workers, contemporary economics, and ancient Athenian history.”. Needless to say, this is all very discouraging in its totality, but the final chapter encourages us to balance pessimism with optimism just as democracy must balance all those other tensions. It took me forever to read Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone/5(72). · Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone offers a better understanding of what is possible, what we want, and why democracy is so hard to realize. Reviews “Moths never reach the moon, but they navigate by it; we humans may never reach democracy, Astra Taylor tells us, but we navigate by its ideals.
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone - Ebook written by Astra Taylor. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone. Democracy May Not Exist, But We'll Miss It When It's Gone is a romp through the thought processes of Astra Taylor. I found it less disciplined than her previous The People's Platform, and it. Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone. As Astra Taylor demonstrates, real democracy—fully inclusive and completely egalitarian—has in fact never existed. In a tone that is both philosophical and anecdotal, weaving together history, theory, the stories of individuals, and interviews with such leading thinkers as.
Democracy's inherent paradoxes often go unnamed and unrecognized. Exploring such questions, Democracy May Not Exist offers a better understanding of what is possible, what we want, why democracy is so hard to realize, and why it is worth striving for. Imprint Publisher. Metropolitan Books. ISBN. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone by Astra Taylor (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!. Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone from Astra Taylor is a sweeping assessment of what democracy is, was, and could still be. Additionally, she does not make the mistake many writers, and reviewers, make of thinking that discussions about aspects of a democracy other than elections and legislation are in some way not also.
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