Hatred of Democracy (Radical Thinkers)
Language: English
Pages: 106
ISBN: 1781681503
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In this vehement defence of democracy, Jacques Rancière explodes the complacency of Western politicians who pride themselves as the defenders of political freedom. As America and its allies use their military might in the misguided attempt to export a desiccated version democracy, and reactionary strands in mainstream political opinion abandon civil liberties, Rancière argues that true democracy—government by all—is held in profound contempt by the new ruling class. In a compelling and timely analysis, Hatred of Democracy rethinks the subversive power of the democratic ideal.
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Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress v3.1 Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Introduction 1 From Victorious Democracy to Criminal Democracy 2 Politics, or the Lost Shepherd 3 Democracy, Republic, Representation 4 The Rationality of a Hatred Notes Introduction A young woman keeps France in
Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress v3.1 Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Introduction 1 From Victorious Democracy to Criminal Democracy 2 Politics, or the Lost Shepherd 3 Democracy, Republic, Representation 4 The Rationality of a Hatred Notes Introduction A young woman keeps France in
Cronus, who knew that no man could govern others without becoming bloated on injustices and excesses, and who resolved the problem by giving the human tribes leaders chosen from the superior race of daimones. But Plato, that reluctant contemporary of the men who claimed that power belonged to the people, not being able to oppose to these men anything except a ‘care of the self’ incapable of bridging the distance between the many and the whole, effectively countersigned the farewell, relegating
society. In this respect, it declares that, even where it is recognized, the equality of ‘men’ and of ‘citizens’ only concerns their relation to the constituted juridico-political sphere, and that even where the people is sovereign it is only so through the actions of its representatives and governors. Domination works through the distinction of the public, which belongs to everyone, and the private, where the liberties of all prevail. These liberties each person has are the liberties, that is
some expert concerned with identifying objective criteria by which to classify forms of government and types of society. On the contrary, it was invented as a term to ‘indistinguish’ things, to show that the power of an assembly of equal men could be nothing but the confusion of a formless and squawking horde, that this latter was to the social order what chaos was to the natural order. To understand what democracy means is to hear the struggle that is at stake in the word: not simply the tones