Truth of Democracy
"These short essays are packed tight with the sort of incisive reflection that Jean-Luc Nancy always brings to bear on his subject. The subject of democracy brings out the most generous and exhilarating dimensions of his thought. This collection is a very welcome provocation to raise the level of understanding of what it is we desire from democracy." -- -Peggy Kamuf University of Southern California "Nancy answers the reductive rewriting of history concerning May '68 with a resounding philosophical salvo, both salutary and exhortatory: think again, he urges, think through the current political impasses--of the Left in crisis, of the unimpeachable logic of economics, of globalized markets, and so on--not just to uncover the necessarily disruptive aspirations of an always perfectible democracy, but to reconceive politics as the incalculability of _being in common_." -- -David Wills University at Albany, SUNY "In a formulation that is perhaps as original as it is disconcerting, The Truth of Democracy concludes that 'democracy is first and foremost a metaphysics and only afterwards a politics'." -Times Literary Supplement
Presents a plea that we rethink democracy not as one political regime or form among others but as that which opens up the very experience of being in common. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Fordham University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780823232451
- Utgivelsesår
- 2010
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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"These short essays are packed tight with the sort of incisive reflection that Jean-Luc Nancy always brings to bear on his subject. The subject of democracy brings out the most generous and exhilarating dimensions of his thought. This collection is a very welcome provocation to raise the level of understanding of what it is we desire from democracy." -- -Peggy Kamuf University of Southern California "Nancy answers the reductive rewriting of history concerning May '68 with a resounding philosophical salvo, both salutary and exhortatory: think again, he urges, think through the current political impasses--of the Left in crisis, of the unimpeachable logic of economics, of globalized markets, and so on--not just to uncover the necessarily disruptive aspirations of an always perfectible democracy, but to reconceive politics as the incalculability of _being in common_." -- -David Wills University at Albany, SUNY "In a formulation that is perhaps as original as it is disconcerting, The Truth of Democracy concludes that 'democracy is first and foremost a metaphysics and only afterwards a politics'." -Times Literary Supplement