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Document Details : Title: Power and Social Communication Author(s): LACLAU, Ernesto Journal: Ethical Perspectives Volume: 7 Issue: 2-3 Date: September 2000 Pages: 139-145 DOI: 10.2143/EP.7.2.503799 Abstract : Discussion about the viability of democracy in what can broadly be called our `postmodern', technologically dominated age, has mainly turned around two central issues: (1) does not the current dispersion and fragmentation of social actors — deriving partly from the overriding presence of the media in our civilization — conspire against the emergence of strong social identities which could operate as nodal points for the consolidation and expansion of democratic practices?; and (2) is not this very multiplicity the source of a particularism of social aims which could result in the dissolution of the wider emancipatory discourses considered as constitutive of the democratic imaginary? |
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