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Political Science Democracy

Democracy and Defiance

Rancière, Lefort, Abensour and the Antinomies of Politics

by (author) Bryan Nelson

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2024
Category
Democracy, Political, History & Theory, Criticism
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781474477222
    Publish Date
    Apr 2024
    List Price
    $142.99

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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 Rancière, 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 Rancière, 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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Contributor Notes

Bryan Nelson is a Liberal Arts & Sciences Professor at Humber College, Toronto, Canada.