Beyond Democracy To Post-Democracy: Conceiving A Better Model Of Governance To Supercede Democracy (Volume Two only) (Studies In Political Science, 22B)

Baofu, Peter

ISBN 10: 077346218X / ISBN 13: 9780773462182

Published by Edwin Mellen Press, 2004

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2005 hardcover published without jacket/ex-library with usual markings/clean & unmarked text. pages 380-861.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beyond Democracy To Post-Democracy: Conceiving A Better Model Of Governance To Supercede Democracy (Volume Two only) (Studies In Political Science, 22B)
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 077346218X
• ISBN 13: 9780773462182
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Contrary to the belief of many contemporaries, democracy is as evil and good as non-democracy. This sounds shocking, since democracy (of whatever version) enjoys its triumphant moment in our age, to the effect that there is a widespread belief of democracy, unlike non-democracy, as most congenial to the celebration (not condemnation) of difference. This democratic/non-democratic dichotomy therefore privileges democracy as the highest political achievement of human civilization, such that everywhere there have been endless discussions of how and why different societies and cultures are to adopt it, all in the celebration of difference in our time. Dr. Baofu, in this wide-ranging work, shows how and why the democratic idea of difference becomes the democratic mystique of difference. His inquiry reveals, in the end, how and why democracy privileges itself by an untenable dichotomy and is essentially contingent on the historical needs of society and the dominant themes of culture in our time. Democracy will not last (to be superseded by what Dr.Baofu originally called “post-democracy”), just as aristocracy before it could not. The difference is that we believe in our version of historical destiny now, just as those before us believed in theirs then, and those after us will believe in theirs in the future. As an anti-hero of our time, Baofu’s critique against the sacrosanct idea of democracy earns few friends and wins few hearts, in an age where the democratic idea reigns supreme as its god.

About the Author

Dr.Peter Baofu is also the author of The Future of Post-Human Consciousness (2004), The Future of Capitalism and Democracy (2002), and the two volumes titled The Future of Human Civilization (2000). He earned an entry to the list of "prominent and emerging writers" in Contemporary Authors (2004) and was a U.S.Fulbright Scholar in the Far East. He had taught as a professor at different universities in Europe, the Middle East, and America. He finished more than 5 academic degrees, including a Ph.D. in political science from M.I.T., and was a summa cum laude graduate.