Democracy and the Political Unconscious

Noelle McAfee

March, 2008
Cloth, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13880-2
$45.00 / £26.50

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Sociosymbolic Public Sphere

1. The Political Unconscious

2. Modernity's Traumas

3. Targeting the Public Sphere

4. The Repetition Compulsion or the Endless War on Terror

5. Recovering Community

6. Deliberative Democracy

7. Feminist Theory, Politics, and Freedom

8. Public Knowledge

9. Three Models of Democratic Deliberation

10. The Limits of Deliberation, Democratic Myths, New Frontiers

11. Media and the Public Sphere

Epilogue

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Related Subjects

• Continental/Feminist Philosophy
• Political Philosophy
• Political Theory

Series

• New Directions in Critical Theory

About the Author

Noelle McAfee is a visiting associate professor of philosophy at George Mason University and the associate editor of the Kettering Review. Her previous publications include Habermas, Kristeva, and Citizenship; Julia Kristeva; and most recently a special issue of Hypatia on feminist engagements in democratic theory.

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