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What’s Wrong with Democracy? The Peculiar Power of Kratos [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

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العنوان: What’s Wrong with Democracy? The Peculiar Power of Kratos [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
المؤلفون: John McGuire
المصدر: Open Research Europe, Vol 1 (2022)
بيانات النشر: F1000 Research Ltd, 2022.
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: LCC:Science
LCC:Social Sciences
مصطلحات موضوعية: Ancient and Modern Democracy, Democratic power and discontent, Populism, Demosthenes, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Josiah Ober, eng, Science, Social Sciences
الوصف: In this paper, I reconstruct the notion of kratos as a unique and distinguishable mode of political power. My claim will be that kratos encapsulates a specific problem for democracy, in both ancient and modern contexts. Using examples from 5th- and 4th- century Attic tragedy, Old Comedy, and forensic oratory, I show how kratos was used in Athenian cultural and political discourse to convey the irrefutability of a claim, the recognition of prevailing over another, and the sense of having the last word, all of which makes kratic power dependent upon its continued demonstrability. Although the agency of the dēmos is now largely mediated through representative mechanisms, the peculiarly kratic drive towards ‘winning,’ with all its inherent instability and vacuity, remains indispensable for democratic legitimacy. In focusing critical attention on kratos and the pathology of winning, I hope to shift discussion from what divides ‘elites’ from the ‘masses,’ to a problem shared in common.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2732-5121
Relation: https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/1-56/v2; https://doaj.org/toc/2732-5121
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.13726.2
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/075268d524024a029b8469fee4111f57
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.075268d524024a029b8469fee4111f57
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:27325121
DOI:10.12688/openreseurope.13726.2