Overdoing Democracy
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Overdoing Democracy
| Full title | Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in Its Place |
|---|---|
| Author | Robert B. Talisse |
| Published | 2019 |
| Pages | 200 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Talisse’s argument that democracy can be damaged by too much of itself: as politics saturates where we shop, live and what we watch, citizens sort into like-minded groups and lose the shared non-political life in which they meet as something other than partisans. The prescription is deliberately building relationships and institutions that are not about politics at all. |
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, under Liberalism, Democracy, and Pluralism, alongside Talisse’s Sustaining Democracy, Haidt’s The Righteous Mind and Inazu’s Confident Pluralism — the cluster on how a plural society keeps functioning once disagreement becomes identity. Full transcription: The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
Connections
- Democracy — the concept the book qualifies.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the list this came from.
What links here
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