John S. Dryzek
Autore di The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory
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John S. Dryzek is Centenary Professor at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance in the University of Canberra's Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and former Head of the Departments of Political Science mostra altro at the Universities of Oregon and Melbourne, and the Social and Political Theory programme at the Australian National University. He is the author of numerous books and articles on environmental governance and politics, climate change, and democracy in theory and practice. mostra meno
Opere di John S. Dryzek
Green States and Social Movements: Environmentalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Norway (2003) 18 copie
Deliberative Global Politics: Discourse and Democracy in a Divided World (Key Concepts) (2006) 9 copie
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The Politics of the Anthropocene di John S. Dryzek
The authors contend that the anthropocene requires a politics marked by ecologically reflexive institutions, open to feedback and change through deliberative democracy.
Anthology of formal academic papers submitted primarily by environmental doomsayers with no physical scientific background within academia. Some of their speculations as to the social and economic impacts of climate change amount to little more than rationalized climate hysteria and are already looking outdated.
"This reader represents our conception of what a core set of readings in environmental politics should look like" J.S.D. and D.S. in Acknowledgements of the book.
The author seems to have put this book together mostly from his earlier research papers, but that's not a big annoyance this time (except when he refers to himself in the third person). I was more disappointed by the general lack of clarity. Apparently the author has taken his inspiration from Habermas. That shines through in his hopelessly abstract "discourse theory" which seems to be its own isolated world, supposedly applicable everywhere yet far too detached from all real problems of democratic government to have any significant meaning.
Indeed the author finally hits the nail on the head on the last page of the book: "the danger is if deliberative democracy is everything, maybe it is nothing". I can only agree with this worrisome conclusion after seeing him consistently start with an interesting topic and then spoil the analysis with such discourse verbiage that no remotely relevant point materializes. The lesson I drew from this book: if you want to think clearly about democracy, you should stay clear of deliberative theory.… (altro)
Indeed the author finally hits the nail on the head on the last page of the book: "the danger is if deliberative democracy is everything, maybe it is nothing". I can only agree with this worrisome conclusion after seeing him consistently start with an interesting topic and then spoil the analysis with such discourse verbiage that no remotely relevant point materializes. The lesson I drew from this book: if you want to think clearly about democracy, you should stay clear of deliberative theory.… (altro)
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