Date announcement was posted: 9-25-2006 Professor Urbinati at Labyrinth Books September 26 You are invited to a reception and book-signing in honor of the newly published Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy by Nadia Urbinati on Tuesday, September 26th from 7-8:30 pm at Labyrinth Books. This event is free and open to the public. It is usually held that representative government is not strictly democratic, since it does not allow the people themselves to directly make decisions. But here, taking as her guide Thomas Paine's subversive view that "Athens, by representation, would have surpassed her own democracy," Nadia Urbinati challenges this accepted wisdom, arguing that political representation deserves to be regarded as a fully legitimate mode of democratic decision-making, and not just a pragmatic second choice when direct democracy is not possible. Nadia Urbinati is Neil Singer Professor of Contemporary Civilization and Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Her most recent book, Mill on Democracy, is also published by the University of Chicago press. For more information about this title and this event, please click here. Labyrinth Books is located at 536 West 112th Street, in Manhattan, between Broadway and Amsterdam. (Take the 1 train to 110th Street and walk 2 blocks north. For drivers, there is a parking garage about 50 yards passed Labyrinth on the south side of 112th Street.) For more information, please email [email protected] or call 212-865-1588. Close