Thinking Radical Democracy

Author： Martin Breaugh   Christopher Holman   Rachel Magnusson   Paul Mazzocchi   Devin Penner  

Publisher： University of Toronto Press‎

Publication year： 2015

E-ISBN: 9781442621992

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Language： ENG

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“Pushing the renewed interest in post-war French political thought in new and exciting directions, this collection makes the case that there is an understudied radical current of democratic thinking in post-war French thought. Thinking Radical Democracy does an immense service to Anglophone political thought by starting a conversation on the political theory of these thinkers.”

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Radical Democracy and Twentieth-Century French Thought

Part I: The Forebearers of the Return of Radical Democracy

1 Hannah Arendt: Plurality, Publicity, Performativity

2 Politics à l’écart: Merleau-Ponty and the Flesh of the Social

3 The Counter-Hobbes of Pierre Clastres

Part II: The Critique of Totalitarianism and the Emergence of Radical Democratic Thought

4 Claude Lefort: Democracy as the Empty Place of Power

5 Cornelius Castoriadis: Auto-Institution and Radical Democracy

6 Guy Debord and the Politics of Play

Part III: New Directions and Possibilities in Radical Democratic Thought

7 A Politics in Writing: Jacques Rancière and the Equality of Intelligences

8 Democracy and Its Conditions: Étienne Balibar and the Contribution of Marxism to Radical Democracy

9 From a Critique of Totalitarian Domination to the Utopia of Insurgent Democracy: On the “Political Philosophy” of Miguel Abensour

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