{"product_id":"thinking-radical-democracy-9781442650046","title":"Thinking Radical Democracy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThinking 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: 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)","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408373064023,"sku":"9781442650046","price":47.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442650046.jpg?v=1730502659","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thinking-radical-democracy-9781442650046","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}