پارلمان‌گرایی و دایره‌المعارف‌گرایی: دموکراسی پارلمانی در عصر تکه‌تکه شدن

This book explores a specific aspect of modern parliamentarism: its ability to produce and organise political knowledge. The book argues that the very meaning of modern parliamentarism cannot properly be understood without considering the cognitive value which is inherent in the representative function discharged by parliaments, vis-a-vis the political community. It does so by studying the 'encyclopaedic patterns' underlying modern parliamentarism. Exploring the concept from ancient times to modernity, it addresses the fundamental question of the relationship between knowledge and democratic decision-making. This is a truly innovative book; challenging, provocative and asking crucial questions of how parliaments work and legislate. Preface Contents Introduction: Political Representation and Knowledge 1. Origins and Features of Modern Encyclopaedism I. The Encyclopaedia as an Invention of Modernity II. Pre-Modern Encyclopaedism III. From Chambers' Cyclopaedia to Diderot and D'Alambert's Encyclopédie IV. The National Encyclopaedias of the Nineteenth Century V. The Nineteenth-Century Encyclopaedism between Philosophy, Pedagogy and Literature VI. Encyclopaedism and Parliamentarism and their Parallel Transformations 2. Encyclopaedic Parliamentarism in the Nineteenth Century I. Parliaments and Political Representation in the Nineteenth Century II. Parliaments and the Bourgeois Public Sphere III. The Birth of Modern Parliamentary Representation between Publicness and Separateness IV. Parliaments as Political Theatres of the Nation V. Parliaments as Cognitive Maps of Politics VI. Parliamentary Time between Cyclicity and Syncronicity VII. The Era of Generalist Politicians: The Centrality of Parliamentary Oratory VIII. Parliamentary Libraries IX. The Great Treaties on Parliamentary Procedures X. Parliamentary Encyclopaedism and the Rationality of the Legislator XI. The Crisis of the Nineteenth-Century Encyclopaedic Parliament 3. Encyclopaedic Parliamentarism in the Twentieth Century I. Major Transformations in Twentieth-Century Parliaments II. Party Parliaments III. Parliamentary Committees and the Professionalisation of Politics IV. Bicameralism as a Resource for the Parliamentary Encyclopaedia V. The New Knowledge Systems Supporting Parliaments VI. Legislative Rationality in the Twentieth Century VII. The Basic Structure of the Twentieth-Century Parliamentary Encyclopaedia 4. Crisis and Transformation of the Encyclopaedic Model I. Encyclopaedias in the Twentieth Century between Crisis and Innovation II. Deconstruction of the Parliamentary Encyclopaedia III. 'Resistance' (and Resilience) of the Parliamentary Encyclopaedia Conclusions: The New Parliamentary Encyclopaedia: Combining Specialised Knowledge with Common Sense I. Old and New Encyclopaedism II. Building ‘Wikipedian Parliaments’ III. Developing the ‘Federalising Capacity’ of Parliaments IV. Opening an Instituent Perspective in the Parliamentary Encyclopaedia V. Memory, Reason and Imagination for the New Parliamentary Encyclopaedia Bibliography Index