Demos Rising
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-83759-8 (ISBN)
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In his previous book, Demos Assembled, historian Stephen W. Sawyer offered a transatlantic account of the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. In Demos Rising, he presents readers of political history with a prequel whose ambitious claim is that a genuine demos became possible in France only with the development of government regulation and administration. Focusing on democracy as a form of administration rather than as a form of sovereignty allows Sawyer to explore urban planning, work and private enterprise, health administration, and much more as cornerstones of a self-governing society of equals.
Examining the period between 1800 and 1850, Sawyer studies a set of thinkers who debated at length over the material problems of everyday life, sparking calls for political action and social reform in the face of conflict wreaked by deforestation, urbanization, health crises, labor relations, industrial capitalism, religious tensions, and imperial expansion. The solutions to these problems, Sawyer argues, were sought—and sometimes found—not through elections, as one might assume, but rather through the “care for all” promised by modern administrative power, regulatory intervention, and social welfare programs. By studying this profound transformation in governance, the book wagers, we can better understand the origin and meaning of democracy—even when events in our own time have thrown the concept into doubt.
Stephen W. Sawyer is the Ballantine-Leavitt Professor of History and director of the Center for Critical Democracy Studies at the American University of Paris. He is also the director of publications for the Tocqueville Review and associate editor of the Annales: History and Social Sciences.
Introduction: The Demos Revolution
1 Democratizing the Social Contract
2 Forest Democracy: A New Regulatory Landscape
3 Administrative Democracy: The Public City
4 Health Democracy: The Body Politic
5 Workplace Democracy: Equity and Popular Arbitration
6 Capital Democracy: A Very Social Contract
7 Substantive Democracy: The Nonsecular Foundations of a Democratic Social Science
8 Imperial Democracy: Colonial Empire and the Limits of the Demos
Conclusion: The Mixed Social Constitution
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.1.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Life of Ideas |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-83759-9 / 0226837599 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-83759-8 / 9780226837598 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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