Foundational invocations -- A good and perfect beginning -- A tale of two democratic foundings -- Foundings, origins, and repetition -- The promise and perils of presidential refounding in Latin America -- The regenerative founding -- Another birth of freedom
Summary
Beyond Origins challenges the common view of foundings as singular, extraordinary moments of political origin and creation. Engaging with cases of founding across political traditions -- from classical Greece to contemporary Latin America -- the book argues that it is only through pragmatist understandings of democratic origins that we can realize the potential for radical democratic change
