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OverviewUncovering the neglected theories of the council system in the 20th century This book examines the historical emergence of the council system in Russia and Germany by the end of the First World War, reconstructing the intellectual history of council democracy in 20th century political theory, and providing in-depth analysis of council democracy in the political thought of Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort and Hannah Arendt. Popp-Madsen argues that council democracy can productively be interpreted through the prism of constituent power: the form-giving power of the people to decide on their own institutional forms of political co-existence. Whereas other interpreters of constituent power claim an unbridgeable gap between constituent power and constituted power, this book asserts that council democracy discloses a historically grounded way of institutionalising the constituent power. Council democracy, in this interpretation, becomes a way of controlling the constituent power without completely exhausting it, thereby giving the citizenry continual access to the powers of self-transformation, co-creation and constituent freedom. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Benjamin Popp-MadsenPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 9781474456319ISBN 10: 1474456316 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 31 March 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationBenjamin Ask Popp-Madsen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School. He has contributed a chapter to Council Democracy: Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics (edited by James Muldoon, Routledge, 2018) and has published a number of journal articles in Danish, German and English. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |