What Is a People? (eBook)

Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Georges Didi-Huberman, Sadri Khiari, Jacques Rancière, Pierre Bourdieu (Autoren)

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2016
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54171-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Rethinking the terms we use to define a people.

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What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "e;people"e; as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic analysis of "e;popular"e; and its transformation of democracy, beliefs, songs, and even soups into phenomena with outsized importance. Judith Butler calls out those who use freedom of assembly to create an exclusionary "e;we,"e; while Georges Didi-Huberman addresses the problem of summing up a people with totalizing narratives. Sadri Khiari applies an activist's perspective to the racial hierarchies inherent in ethnic and national categories, and Jacques Ranciere comments on the futility of isolating theories of populism when, as these thinkers have shown, the idea of a "e;people"e; is too diffuse to support them. By engaging this topic linguistically, ethnically, culturally, and ontologically, the voices in this volume help separate "e;people"e; from its fraught associations to pursue more vital formulations.Together with Democracy in What State?, in which Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Ranciere, Kristin Ross, and Slavoj ?i?ek discuss the nature and purpose of democracy today, What Is a People? expands an essential exploration of political action and being in our time.

Autor

Alain Badiou (PhD, Philosophy, Ecole Normale Superieure) holds the Rene Descartes Chair at the European Graduate School; he also teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and the College International de Philosophie in Paris. He is the author of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works, including his masterwork, Being and Event (Continuum, 2007), and several Columbia titles, includng Plato's Republic (2013) and Jacques Lacan Past and Present (2016).

Inhalt

PrefaceIntroduction: This People Which Is Not One, by Bruno Bosteels1. Twenty-Four Notes on the Uses of the Word "People", by Alain Badiou2. You Said "Popular"?, by Pierre Bourdieu3. "We, the People": Thoughts on Freedom of Assembly, by Judith Butler4. To Render Sensible, by Georges Didi-Huberman5. The People and the Third People, by Sadri Khiari6. The Populism That Is Not to Be Found, by Jacques RancièreConclusion: Fragile Collectivities, Imagined Sovereignties, by Kevin OlsonNotesIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.5.2016
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Critical Theory
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Critical Theory
• Einführung: Bruno Bosteels
• Nachwort: Kevin Olson
• Übersetzer: Jody Gladding
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54171-6 / 0231541716
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54171-8 / 9780231541718