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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
• HerausgeberIn: Breaugh, Martin ,; Holman, Christopher,; Magnusson, Rachel ,; Mazzocchi, Paul,; Penner, Devin,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Radical Democracy and Twentieth-Century French Thought -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Contributors