What Is a People?

by Sadri Khiari, Georges Didi-Huberman, Jacques Rancière, et al.

Book Overview

What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic analysis of "popular" and its transformation of democracy, beliefs, songs, and even soups into phenomena with outsized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231168764
• ISBN13: 9780231168762
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"