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Book SynopsisThinking 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.
Trade Review'Thinking Radical Democracy is an important intervention in contemporary debates concerning political thought; it demonstrates both the historical roots of radical democratic theory and the respective merits of the work of Abensour, Balibar, and Ranci re.' -- Devin Zane Shaw Symposium: Journal of the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy vol 19:01:2015 'Thinking Radical Democracy makes an important contribution to our understanding of recent French intellectual history. Its intervention in postulating a left wing of the French 'return' of political philosophy breathes new life into this historical interpretation.' -- Jacob Hamburger Politics, Religion, and Ideology; March 2016 'As a series of surveys into discrete theories of radical democracy, this collected volume excels... Breaugh does a quite admirable job in explicating the underlying philosophy that informs radical democratic ideas.' -- J. Matthew Hoye Contemporary Political Theory March 2017
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Radical Democracy and 20th Century French Thought Part I - The Forebearers of the Return of Radical Democracy 1 - Hannah Arendt: Plurality, Publicity, Performativity (Christopher Holman) 2 - Politics A L'Ecart: Merleau-Ponty and the Flesh of the Social (Paul Mazzocchi) 3 - The Counter-Hobbes of Pierre Clastres (Miguel Abensour) Part II - The Critique of Totalitarianism and the Emergence of Radical Democratic Thought 4 - Claude Lefort: Democracy as the Empty Place of Power (Carlo Invernizzi Accetti) 5 - Cornelius Castoriadis. Auto-Institution and Radical Democracy (Brian C.J. Singer) 6 - Guy Debord and the Politics of Play (Devin Penner) Part III - New Directions and Possibilities in Radical Democratic Thought 7 - A Politics in Writing: Jacques Ranciere and the Equality of Intelligences (Rachel Magnusson) 8 - Democracy and Its Conditions: Etienne Balibar and the Contribution of Marxism to Radical Democracy (James D. Ingram) 9 - From a Critique of Totalitarian Domination to the Utopia of Insurgent Democracy: On the "Political Philosophy" of Miguel Abensour (Martin Breaugh)
