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Overview"In the ""Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,” the young Marx elliptically alludes to a ""true democracy"" whose advent would go hand in hand with the disappearance of the state. Miguel Abensour’s rigorous interpretation of this seminal text reveals an “unknown Marx” who undermines the identification of democracy with the state and defends a historically occluded form of politics. True democracy does not entail the political and economic power of the state, but it does not dream of a post-political society either. On the contrary, the battle of democracy is waged by a demos that invents a public sphere of permanent struggles, a politics that counters political bureaucracy and representation. Democracy is ""won"" by a people forewarned that any dissolution of the political realm in its independence, any subordination to the state, is tantamount to annihilating the site for gaining and regaining a genuinely human existence. In this explicitly heterodox reading of Marx, Miguel Abensour proposes a theory of ""insurgent"" democracy that makes political liberty synonymous with a living critique of domination." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Miguel Abensour (University of Paris VII - Denis-Diderot)Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Polity Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.440kg ISBN: 9780745650098ISBN 10: 0745650090 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 21 December 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of Contents"Translator's Introduction: ""To Think Emancipation Otherwise"" by Max Blechman Preface to the Italian edition (2008) Preface to the second French edition (2004): ""Of Insurgent Democracy"" Preface Introduction Chapter 1: The Utopia of the Rational State Chapter 2: Political Intelligence Chapter 3: From the 1843 Crisis to the Criticism of Politics Chapter 4: A Reading Hypothesis Chapter 5: The Four Characteristics of True Democracy Chapter 6: True Democracy and Modernity Conclusion Annex: ""Savage Democracy"" and the ""Principle of Anarchy"""ReviewsDemocracy is not a state-form. The power of the people is even the antithesis of the Statist principle. By maintaining - with Marx, and against the Marxist tradition - this radical thesis, Miguel Abensour makes an essential contribution to the now urgent task of returning the words politics and democracy to their original meaning. Jacques Ranciere Author InformationMiguel Abensour is Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Paris VII - Denis-Diderot. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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