Democracy and Defiance: Rancière, Lefort, Abensour and the Antinomies of Politics

by 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 Ranci re, 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474477224
• ISBN13: 9781474477222
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"