
Democracy and Defiance
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- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Antinomies of Politics
- 1. Towards Democracy's Anarchic Condition
- Democracy as Critique
- Plato Discovers the Political: Ranci.re's Reading of the Allegory of the Ship
- Philosophy's Sovereignty over Politics: Abensour's Reading of the Allegory of the Cave
- The Polemics of the Polis: The Greek Invention of Politics
- Democracy's Anarchic Condition: A New Political Ontology
- Making Politics Thinkable
- 2. Dissolution of the Archê
- In the Name of Democracy: The Kratos of the Demos
- On the Universality of the Problem of the Archê
- The Nature of Rule: An Interpretation of Plato's Laws
- Commandment and Commencement: The Strange Logic of the Archê Principle
- In Summary: Archic Government
- Enter Democracy: What Does It Mean to beagainst the Archê?
- Understanding Democracy's 'Anarchic Title'
- Democracy as 'Political' or 'Anarchic' Government
- Anarchy: The Infinite Opening
- 4. Democratisation of the Sensible: Democracy against the Police
- On the Many Forms of Being-Against
- Politics and the Police: A Radical Dichotomy
- Foucault, the Police and Governmentality
- The Government of the Sensible and the Symbolic Constitution of Society: Ranci.re's Concept of the Police
- 'Logical Revolt': Towards a Theory of the Political Subject
- On Political Names
- The 'History' or 'Tradition' of Emancipation
- 5. The Politics of Emancipation: Democracy against the State
- Social Domination and Political Emancipation: An Introduction to Abensour's General Approach to Democracy
- From the Frankfurt School to Lefort and Machiavelli: Abensour's Critical Political Philosophy
- Utopia and Democracy
- Against the State: Clastres contra Hobbes
- Marx's 'Machiavellian Moment': Hegel, Sovereignty and Political Alienation
- 'True' Democracy and the Reduction of the State
- Insurgent Democracy
- In Summary: Ranci.re's Democracy against the Police and Abensour's Democracy against the State
- 3. To Think Democracy Otherwise: Claude Lefort and Savage Democracy
- On the Status of Political Philosophy
- Pierre Clastres and the Logic of Being-Against
- The Essence of Democracy: A Question of Interpretation
- Democratic Revolution: Tocqueville and Lefort
- The 'Principle of Anarchy' and the Emancipatory Act of Politics
- Permanent Contestation: Savage Democracy and Human Rights
- Thinking Democracy Savage: A Philosophical Exercise
- Conclusion: 'Hic et nunc' - the Use of Philosophy and the Critique of the Present
- Bibliography
- Index
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