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Book SynopsisPresents a plea that we rethink democracy not as one political regime or form among others but as that which opens up the very experience of being in common.
Trade Review"These short essays are packed tight with the sort of incisive reflection that Jean-Luc Nancy always brings to bear on his subject. The subject of democracy brings out the most generous and exhilarating dimensions of his thought. This collection is a very welcome provocation to raise the level of understanding of what it is we desire from democracy." -- -Peggy Kamuf University of Southern California "Nancy answers the reductive rewriting of history concerning May '68 with a resounding philosophical salvo, both salutary and exhortatory: think again, he urges, think through the current political impasses--of the Left in crisis, of the unimpeachable logic of economics, of globalized markets, and so on--not just to uncover the necessarily disruptive aspirations of an always perfectible democracy, but to reconceive politics as the incalculability of _being in common_." -- -David Wills University at Albany, SUNY "In a formulation that is perhaps as original as it is disconcerting, The Truth of Democracy concludes that 'democracy is first and foremost a metaphysics and only afterwards a politics'." -Times Literary Supplement
