Democracy and Defiance

Bryan Nelson

Democracy and Defiance
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
30 April 2024
Pages
240
ISBN
9781474477222

Democracy and Defiance

Bryan Nelson

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 Rancire, 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 Rancire, 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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