Introduction : re-interpreting democracy for our time / Gerard Rosich and Peter Wagner -- Autonomy in and between polities : democracy and the need for collective political selves / Gerard Rosich -- Rethinking "modern" democracy : political modernity and constituent power / Andreas Kalyvas -- Democratic surplus and democracy-in-failing : on ancient and modern self-cancelation of democracy / Nathalie Karagiannis -- Setbacks of women's emancipation (condition, consequence, measure and ruse) / Geneviève Fraisse -- Political modernity, democracy and state-society relations in Latin America : a new socio-historical problématique? / Manuel A. Garretón -- Communitarian cosmopolitanism : Argentina's recuperated factories, neoliberal globalisation and democratic citizenshp : an Arendtian perspective / Carlos A. Forment -- Middle-classing in Roodepoort : unexpected sites of post-apartheid "community" / Ivor Chipkin -- Democracy and capitalism in Europe, Brazil and South Africa / Peter Wagner -- From realism to activism : a critique of resignation in political theory / Lea Ypi -- The world as we find it : a suggestion for a democratic theory for our times / Tracy B. Strong -- Epilogue : democracy as capacity for self-transformation / Gerard Rosich and Peter Wagner.

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