Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Radical Democracy and Twentieth-Century French Thought 1
5. Part I: The Forebearers of the Return of Radical Democracy
6. 1 Hannah Arendt: Plurality, Publicity, Performativity 33
7. 2 Politics à l’écart: Merleau-Ponty and the Flesh of the Social 60
8. 3 The Counter-Hobbes of Pierre Clastres 89
9. Part II: The Critique of Totalitarianism and the Emergence of Radical Democratic Thought
10. 4 Claude Lefort: Democracy as the Empty Place of Power 121
11. 5 Cornelius Castoriadis: Auto-Institution and Radical Democracy 141
12. 6 Guy Debord and the Politics of Play 165
13. Part III: New Directions and Possibilities in Radical Democratic Thought
14. 7 A Politics in Writing: Jacques Rancière and the Equality of Intelligences 189
15. 8 Democracy and Its Conditions: Étienne Balibar and the Contribution of Marxism to Radical Democracy 210
16. 9 From a Critique of Totalitarian Domination to the Utopia of Insurgent Democracy: On the “Political Philosophy” of Miguel Abensour 234
17. Bibliography 255
18. Contributors 275