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DEMOCRACY AGAINST THE STATE
MARX AND THE MACHIAVELLIAN MOVEMENT |
| By: |
Miguel Abensour |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£16.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0745650104 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780745650104 |
| Publisher: |
POLITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
21 December, 2010 |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Description: |
* Miguel Abensour is an influential political philosopher in France, well-known for his highly original interpretations of Marx. * The text provides a reading of the young Marx s work on politics, democracy and the state, linking Marx s writings with elements of Levinas s work and anarchism. |
| Synopsis: |
In the "Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, the young Marx elliptically alludes to a "true democracy" whose advent would go hand in hand with the disappearance of the state. Miguel Abensour s rigorous interpretation of this seminal text reveals an unknown Marx who undermines the identification of democracy with the state and defends a historically occluded form of politics. True democracy does not entail the political and economic power of the state, but it does not dream of a post-political society either. On the contrary, the battle of democracy is waged by a demos that invents a public sphere of permanent struggles, a politics that counters political bureaucracy and representation. Democracy is "won" by a people forewarned that any dissolution of the political realm in its independence, any subordination to the state, is tantamount to annihilating the site for gaining and regaining a genuinely human existence. In this explicitly heterodox reading of Marx, Miguel Abensour proposes a theory of "insurgent" democracy that makes political liberty synonymous with a living critique of domination. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Polity Press |
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