title: Radical Democracy
author:  C. Douglas Lummis 
description: "Lummis insists that the hope of global democracy rests on faith in our fellow human beings. The move to embrace this faith conquers cynicism and gives one hope and the ability to act."Thomas Harrison, The Nation<br /><br />"The strongest point of Radical Democracy is Lummis' finely balanced attitude of detachment and commitment that nurtures a generosity of spirit expressed in a direct and attractive prose style."Michael A. Weinstein, Society<br /><br />"This is a book that deserves to be read by economists, both faculty and students, especially those adhering to a radical political position."Michael Keaney, Glasgow Caledonia University. Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 32, 2000
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  The Making of 
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  PHRONESIS 
  A series from Verso edited by 
  Emesto Laclau and ChantalMoufJe 
  There is today wide agreement that the left-wing project 
  is in crisis. New antagonisms have emerged - not only in 
  advanced capitalist societies but also in the Eastern bloc 
  and in the Third World - that require the reformulation 
  of the socialist ideal in terms of an extension and 
  deepening 
  of 
  democracy. 
  However, 
  serious 
  dis­
  agreements exist as to the theoretical strategy needed to 
  carry out such a task. There are those for whom the 
  current critique of rationalism and universalism puts 
  into jeopardy the very basis of the democratic project. 
  Others argue that the critique of essentialism - a point of 
  convergence of the most important trends in contempor­
  ary theory: post-structuralism, philosophy of language 
  after the later Wittgenstein, post-Heideggerian her­
  meneutics - is the