Democracy is in crisis everywhere — but the standard remedies (more referendums, stronger parties, better leaders) miss the root cause. Heinrichs diagnoses the problem precisely: modern democracy conflates four structurally distinct domains — basic values, culture, politics, and economy — into a single parliamentary arena, where they inevitably corrupt each other.
The solution is four-segmentation: four distinct parliamentary spheres, each with its own legitimacy, representing the four irreducible dimensions of society. This is not utopia but logical consequence: a society that has differentiated these domains in practice (constitutional courts, central banks, cultural institutions) needs to complete this differentiation democratically.
Key arguments
- Why mono-parliamentary democracy systematically fails (the economy captures politics, politics captures culture)
- The four levels of social reflection: material needs → political will → cultural values → ultimate meaning
- How four-segmentation was anticipated by thinkers from Aristotle to Tocqueville — without being explicitly formulated
- Concrete proposals for institutional reform
The English companion volume to Revolution der Demokratie — making Heinrichs’ democratic theory accessible to an international audience.
書誌
- 年
- 2025
- エディション
- ヨハネス・ハインリヒス版
- ライセンス
- Copyright
- 次の書の簡約版
- Revolution der Demokratie
電子的原本版： この版は2019年の初版（Edition Prisma、Auroville）とページが一致しています。ページ番号と組版は原本に対応しており、制限なく引用可能です。更新されているのは、このReflexivity Press版の扉、奥付、著者略歴のみです。
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| 言語 | 書籍 | 形式 | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 English | Value-Levels-Democracy |