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      <field key="037" subkey="x">englisch</field>
      <field key="050" subkey="x">Forschungsbericht</field>
      <field key="076" subkey="">Politikwissenschaft</field>
      <field key="079" subkey="y">http://www.ihs.ac.at/publications/pol/pw_34.pdf</field>
      <field key="079" subkey="z">Touraine, Alain, Democracy versus History (pdf)</field>
      <field key="100" subkey="">Touraine, Alain</field>
      <field key="103" subkey="">École des hautes études en sciences sociales</field>
      <field key="104" subkey="b">Valenzuela, J. Samuel (Co.)</field>
      <field key="107" subkey="">The Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana</field>
      <field key="331" subkey="">Democracy versus History</field>
      <field key="403" subkey="">1. Ed.</field>
      <field key="410" subkey="">Wien</field>
      <field key="412" subkey="">Institut für Höhere Studien</field>
      <field key="425" subkey="">1996, May</field>
      <field key="433" subkey="">23 pp.</field>
      <field key="451" subkey="">Institut für Höhere Studien; Reihe Politikwissenschaft; 34</field>
      <field key="461" subkey="">Political Science Series</field>
      <field key="517" subkey="c">from the Table of Contents: Revolutionary Democracy; Liberal Democracy; Social and Cultural Democracy; Unity and Difference;</field>
      <field key="For" subkey="m">al-Political and Societal Democracy. A Commentary on Alain Touraine's "Democracy versus History" by J. Samuel Valenzuela;</field>
      <field key="544" subkey="">IHSPW 34</field>
      <field key="720" subkey="">Democracy</field>
      <field key="720" subkey="">Equality</field>
      <field key="720" subkey="">Culture</field>
      <field key="720" subkey="">History</field>
      <field key="720" subkey="">Future</field>
      <field key="753" subkey="">Abstract: Democratic thought has shifted its focus from history to memory. Liberty is now claimed in the name of a particular</field>
      <field key="pas" subkey="t">- not in the name of an indefinite future, common to us all, a final point of convergence. The political thought of the</field>
      <field key="Eng" subkey="l">ightenment and of the revolutionary epoch bore the democratic spirit by acting as a force destroying private powers, social</field>
      <field key="bar" subkey="r">iers and cultural intolerance; but it is now becoming increasingly antidemocratic, elitist and even repressive, whenever it</field>
      <field key="ide" subkey="n">tifies a nation, social class, age group or gender with reason, so as to justify its domination over other categories. Today,</field>
      <field key="dem" subkey="o">cracy's principal enemies are no longer tradition and belief but, on the one hand, fundamentalist community-based ideologies</field>
      <field key="(wh" subkey="e">ther their contents be nationalistic, ethnic or theocratic), which use modernity as a means of domination, and on the other</field>
      <field key="han" subkey="d">, the blind trust in an open market, where cultural identities are mixed. Under these conditions, democratic thought must</field>
      <field key="cea" subkey="s">e being prophetic. Democracy can no longer turn toward a promising future but toward a space to be reconstructed, to make</field>
      <field key="roo" subkey="m">for the free construction of personal life and for the social and political forms of mediation that can protect it.;</field>
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