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Democracy in What State? (New Directions in Critical Theory)
Democracy in What State - New Directions in Critical Theory
Author: Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Ranciere, Kristin Ross, Slavoj Žižek
"Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?"In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with its critical weaknesses, and reconceive the practice to accommodate new political and cultural realities. Giorgio Agamben traces the tense history of...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780231152990
ISBN-10: 023115299X
Publication Date: 6/12/2012
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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