This book The
Life And Death Of Democracy by John Keane is an interesting, illuminating and
entertaining look at democracy. It's also a sizeable read: at just under 1000
pages. John Keane's purpose in writing this book was to examine and appraise
democracy, to look at its origins, its history, its purpose and practice.
John Keane
traces the roots of democracy to the Myceneans of the Bronze Age, about a
thousand years before it appeared in 5th century BCE Athens. He argues that it
first arose in the East (Iran, Iraq and Syria) but it was in Athens that a
recognisably democratic polis was shaped. In this form of assembly democracy,
the communal gathering place (the agora) was critical. It was where, over two
centuries, self-government was practised until ended by repeated Macedonian
invasions.
Written by a
leading political theorist, this The Life And Death Of Democracy, Keane book
presents readers with a counterintuitive look at democracy’s past, present, and
future, which Keane argues lies not in the West but in the turbulent
democracies of the East, especially in India. Avoiding the triumphalism of
global democracy’s most boisterous pundits, Keane cautions that democracy today
is more fragile than ever and that, unless major corrective measures are taken,
we may be sleepwalking our way into even deeper trouble.
The Life And Death Of Democracy book concludes
with John Keane as an `imaginary historian writing 50 years from now', offering
a perspective on what democracy then might look like, and an evaluation of some
of current trends in democracy.
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