Παρουσίαση
"What Is a People?" seeks to reclaim "people" 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 "popular" 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 "we," 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 Ranci re comments on the futility of isolating theories of populism when, as these thinkers have shown, the idea of a "people" is too diffuse to support them. By engaging this topic linguistically, ethnically, culturally, and ontologically, the voices in this volume help separate "people" 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 Ranci re, Kristin Ross, and Slavoj Zizek discuss the nature and purpose of democracy today, "What Is a People?" expands an essential exploration of political action and being in our time. (From the publisher)
Περιεχόμενα
PREFACEIntroduction: This people which is not one
BRUNO BOSTEELS
Twenty-four notes on the uses of the word "people"
ALAIN BADIOU
You said "popular"?
PIERRE BOURDIEU
"We, the people": Thoughts on freedom of assembly
JUDITH BUTLER
To render sensible
GEORGES DIDI-HUBERMAN
The people and the third people
SADRI KHIARI
The populism that is not to be found
JACQUES RANCIERE
Conclusion: Fragile collectivities, imagined sovereignties
KEVIN OLSON
NOTES
INDEX
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