Paradigms of Postmodern Democracies

Mehdi Ghasemi

SAGE Open, 2019, vol. 9, issue 2, 2158244019843698

Abstract: Postmodernism has served as a turning point in the human evolution of thought, and thus, it has challenged a number of assumptions central to social, political, historical, cultural, and literary fields. Accordingly, postmodernism has not left the study of democracy untouched, and in this essay, I aim to study the ways that postmodernism has affected the political, social, and literary democracies. To this end, I develop a conceptual comparative study of postmodernism and democracy with a focus on their overlaps and drawbacks. The comparative study of postmodernism and democracy opens up the space for the introduction of “postmodern democracies†as more inclusive, collective, and comprehensive frameworks of democracy.

Keywords: postmodernism; postmodern democracies; literary democracy; liberal democracy; post-democracy; participatory democracy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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