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Book SynopsisRadical democracy is the first of its kind. It brings together leading scholars to discuss the theoretical and practical implications of the two dominant approaches to radical democracy: Deleuzian theories of abundance and Lacanian theories of lack.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: rethinking radical democracy between abundance and lack – Lars Tønder and Lasse Thomassen
Part I: Radical democracy: abundance and/or lack?
1. The absence at the heart of presence: radical democracy and the ontology of lack – Oliver Marchart
2. Two routes from Hegel – Nathan Widder
3. Deleuze and democratic politics – Paul Patton
4. The wild patience of radical democracy: beyond Žižek’s lack – Romand Coles
5. Theorising hegemony: between deconstruction and psychoanalysis – Aletta J. Norval
6. In/exclusions: towards a radical democratic approach to exclusion – Lasse Thomassen
Part II: The politics of radical democracy
7. For an agonistic public sphere – Chantal Mouffe
8. In parliament with things – Jane Bennet
9. The radical democratic possibilities of popular culture – Jon Simons
10. Radical and plural democracy: in defence of right/left and public reason – Torben Bech Dyrberg
11. Negativity and radical democracy: radical democracy beyond reoccupation and conformism – Yannis Stavrakakis
12. Inessential commonality: immanence, transcendence, abundance – Lars Tønder
13. True democracy: Marx, political subjectivity and anarchic meta-politics – Simon Critchley
Part III: Afterwords
14. Immanence, abundance, democracy – William E. Connolly
15. The future of radical democracy – Ernesto Laclau
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