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The Non- and Anti-Democratic in Post-Modernity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Masahiro Hamashita
Masahiro Hamashita*
Affiliation:
Kobe College
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Abstract

Is, or has, democracy a universal value? This is the main question raised by this paper, which distinguishes between two aspects of democracy: political institution in opposition to despotism, and political belief against any kind of slavery and subordination. The role played by intellectuals in the development of contemporary democracy, and the relation of democracy to mass culture and the influence of mass media on a true democratic attitude, are studied within the frame of an overall ‘mass aesthetization' which characterizes contemporary societies.

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Diogenes , Volume 55 , Issue 4 , November 2008 , pp. 27 - 31
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Copyright © ICPHS 2008

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