TY - BOOK AU - Dallmayr,Fred R. TI - The promise of democracy: political agency and transformation SN - 978-1-4384-3039-3 U1 - 321.801 21E PY - 2010/// CY - Albany PB - SUNY Press KW - Democracy KW - Philosophy N1 - Notes bibliogr; The promise of democracy -- Hegel for our time : negativity and democratic ethos -- Democratic action and experience : Dewey's "holistic" pragmatism -- Agency and letting-be : Heidegger on primordial praxis -- Action in the public realm : Arendt between past and future -- Postmodernism and radical democracy : Laclau and Mouffe on "hegemony" -- Jacques Derrida's legacy : "democracy to come" -- Who are we now? : for an "other" humanism -- Religion, politics, and Islam : toward multiple modes of democracy -- Beyond minimal democracy : voices from East and West ER -