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Beyond the Force of Numbers
Democracy as Sovereignty and Self-Rule
Author(s): Eduardo Mendieta & Jonathan VanAntwerpen & Giorgio Agamben & Alain Badiou & Daniel Bensaid & Wendy Brown & Jean-Luc Nancy & Jacques Rancière & Kristin Ross & Slavoj Zizek & John Keane & Paul W. Kahn & Nader Hashemi & Qamar- ul-Huda (Ed.)
Reviewed by: S Parvez Manzoor
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THE POWER OF RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE. By Jurgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Cornel West, Judith Butler. Edited by Eduardo Mendieta and Jonathan VanAntwerpen. Columbia University Press, 2011. Pp. 128. ISBN: 9780231156462
DEMOCRACY IN WHAT STATE? NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY. By Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Rancière, Kristin Ross and Slavoj Zizek. Columbia University Press, 2011. Pp. 144. ISBN: 9780231152983.
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DEMOCRACY. By John Keane. W.W. Norton and Company, New York & London, 2009. Pp. 958. ISBN: 9780393058352.
POLITICAL THEOLOGY: FOUR NEW CHAPTERS ON THE CONCEPT OF SOVEREIGNTY. By Paul W. Kahn. Columbia University Press, 2011. Pp.
207. ISBN: 9780231153400.
ISLAM, SECULARISM, AND LIBERAL DEMOCRACY. TOWARD A DEMOCRATIC THEORY FOR MUSLIM SOCIETIES. By Nader Hashemi. Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 304. ISBN: 9780195321241.
CRESCENT AND DOVE: PEACE AND CONFLICT IN ISLAM. By Qamar-ul-Huda (Ed.). US Institute of Peace Press, Washington, 2010. Pp. 319. ISBN: 9781601270603.