Democracy and Defiance
Ranciere, Lefort, Abensour and the Antinomies of Politics
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2024
240 pages
978-1-4744-7725-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores an often neglected current in contemporary French political thought that challenges the limits of the concept of democracy. It situates the projects of Jacques Ranciere, Claude Lefort and Miguel Abensour in relation to each other, as well as to the larger philosophical question of the nature of democracy itself. In doing so, Bryan Nelson illuminates democracy's potential as a profound emancipatory and transformative project, offering an unprecedented challenge to modes of domination, strategies of inequality and hierarchies of all kinds. Against prevailing interpretations, the author draws on the central concepts, problems and polemics in the works of Ranciere, Lefort and Abensour to develop a bold conception of democracy that allows us to rethink its character, power and broader social and political implications.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
0,61 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-7725-3 (9781474477253)
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