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.
参考书目
- 年份
- 2025
- 许可
- Copyright
- 本书为以下著作的简写版
- Revolution der Demokratie
电子原版： 本版与 2019 年初版（Edition Prisma，Auroville）同页。页码和排版与原版一致，可完全引用。仅扉页、版权页和作者简介由 Reflexivity Press 本版更新。
购买渠道
价格: 9.90 EUR/USD
| 语言 | 著作 | 格式 | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 English | Value-Levels-Democracy |