Thinking Radical Democracy : The Return to Politics in Post-War France / Devin Penner, Paul Mazzocchi, Rachel Magnusson, Christopher Holman, Martin Breaugh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Breaugh, Martin, editor.

Holman, Christopher, editor.

Magnusson, Rachel, editor.

Mazzocchi, Paul, editor.

Penner, Devin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--France--Philosophy--History--20th century.

Political science.

Democracy--France--Philosophy--History--20th century.

Democracy.

France--Politics and government--Philosophy--History--20th century.

France.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thinking Radical Democracy is an introduction to nine key political thinkers who contributed to the emergence of radical democratic thought in post-war French political theory: Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Pierre Clastres, Claude Lefort, Cornelius Castoriadis, Guy Debord, Jacques Ranciere, Étienne Balibar, and Miguel Abensour. The essays in this collection connect these writers through their shared contribution to the idea that division and difference in politics can be perceived as productive, creative, and fundamentally democratic. The questions they raise regarding equality and emancipation in a democratic society will be of interest to those studying social and political thought or democratic activist movements like the Occupy movements and Idle No More. --Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: radical democracy and twentieth-century French thought / Christopher Holman, Martin Breaugh, Rachel Magnusson, Paul Mazzocchi, and Devin Penner

Hannah Arendt: plurality, publicity, performativity / Christopher Holman

Politics à l'ecart: Merleau-Ponty and the flesh of the social / Paul Mazzocchi

The counter-Hobbes of Pierre Clastres / Miguel Abensour

Claude Lefort: democracy as the empty place of power / Carol Invernizzi Accetti

Cornelius Castoriadis: auto-institution and radical democracy / Brian C.J. Singer

GUy Debord and the politics of play / Devin Penner

A politics in writing: Jacques Ranciere and the equality of intelligences / Rachel Magnusson

Democracy and its conditions: Étienne Balibar and the contribution of Marxism to radical democracy / James D. Ingram

From a critique of totalitarian domination to the utopia of insurgent democracy: on the "political philosophy" of Miguel Abensour / Martin Breaugh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-2200-8

1-4426-2199-0

OCLC:

913977466