TY  - BOOK
TI  - Thinking radical democracy: the return to politics in post-war France 
SN  - 978-1-4426-5004-6
U1  - 320.094409045 23E
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Political science / France / Philosophy / History / 20th century
KW  - Democracy / France / Philosophy / History / 20th century
KW  - France / Politics and government / Philosophy / History / 20th century
KW  - Democracy / Philosophy
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Political science / Philosophy
KW  - France
KW  - 1900 - 1999
KW  - History
N1  - Bibliogr. p. 255-274; Introduction: Radical Democracy and Twentieth-Century French Thought / Christopher Holman, Martin Breaugh, Rachel Magnusson, Paul Mazzocchi, and Devin Penner -- Part 1: The Forebearers of the Return of Radical Democracy -- Hannah Arendt: Plurality, Publicity, Performativity / Christopher Holman -- Politics a l'ecart: Merleau-Ponty and the Flesh of the Social / Paul Mazzocchi -- The Counter-Hobbes of Pierre Clastres / Miguel Abensour -- Part 2: The Critique of Totalitarianism and the Emergence of Radical Democratic Thought -- Claude Lefort: Democracy as the Empty Place of Power / Carlo Invernizzi Accetti -- Cornelius Castoriadis: Auto-Institution and Radical Democracy / Brian C.J. Singer -- Guy Debord and the Politics of Play / Devin Penner -- Part 3: New Directions and Possibilities in Radical Democratic Thought -- A Politics in Writing: Jacques Ranciere and the Equality of Intelligences / Rachel Magnusson -- Democracy and Its Conditions: Etienne 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
N2  - 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 Rancière, 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
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