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Digging Deeper LV
| What | books and literature UFPPC book discussion |
|---|---|
| When |
2008-08-25 19:00
2008-08-25 20:30
2008-08-25 from 19:00 to 20:30 |
| Where | Mandolin Café, 3923 S. 12th St., Tacoma |
| Contact Name | Mark Jensen |
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Discussion of Sheldon Wolin's new book, _Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism_, challenging the notion that the U.S. is a democratic society in any meaningful sense.
At 7:00 p.m. on Mon., Aug. 25, UFPPC's Monday night book discussion group, Digging Deeper, will discuss Sheldon Wolin's new book challenging the notion that the U.S. is a democratic society in any meaningful sense: Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism (Princeton University Press, April 2008). Marc Stears, author of Progressives, Puluralists and the Problem of the State, has called it "powerful and persuasive. Democracy Incorporated does exactly what great political theory should do: it provides a theoretical framework that allows the reader to see the political world anew. It left this reader with an almost nightmarish vision of American politics today, a nightmare all the more terrifying for being so compelling, so vivid, and so real." Sheldon S. Wolin, professor emeritus of politics at Princeton University, argues that economic power lies at the heart of the new system. American domestic politics is now dominated by "the political role of corporate power, the corruption of the political and representative processes by the lobbying industry, the expansion of executive power at the expense of constitutional limitations, and the degradation of political dialogue promoted by the media."