Disorienting democracy : politics of emancipation

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Disorienting democracy : politics of emancipation

Clare Woodford

(Interventions)

Routledge, 2017

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-194) and index

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内容説明

Drawing on recent developments in continental political thought 'Disorienting Democracy' rethinks democracy as a practice that can be used to counter the increasing poverty, inequality and insecurity that mark our contemporary era. In answer to concerns that the contemporary left is not strong enough for these so-called times of crisis this book argues that the left must urgently return to strongly redistributive policies but that this alone is not enough. To bring lasting change it must continually work to untangle its longstanding emancipatory ideals from the dominatory tendencies that have undermined and weakened it throughout the 20th century. In response, this book argues that the work of Jacques Ranciere is key. Countering domination with a resolute assertion of the capacities of all he gives us a radical politics of emancipation that emerges through subjects who refuse to know their place. In appropriating alternative ways of living they disidentify with everyday consensus, rupturing and subverting our unequal order to force alternatives onto the agenda. Juxtaposing Ranciere with other thinkers from Judith Butler to Jacques Derrida, Woodford draws out the practical implications of Ranciere's work for our current time. She develops dissensual practices that provoke us to not just assert that another world is possible, but to bring about that other world today. Challenging what it means to do political philosophy, rethinking the role of critical theory, ethics, education, literature and aesthetics for democracy, and rejecting the longstanding divide between theory and activism, this book will be of particular interest to graduates, scholars and activists.

目次

Introduction: Disorienting democracy Disorienting the left and the limits of communism Rejecting postdemocracy and rethinking the state of the left Plotting our route Dis-reconnaissance in preparation for voyage Practicing dissensus 1. Equality: the twisted path of emancipation 'Politics' as appropriation, subjectivation and dis-identification 'Politics' can be willed The ordinary in the extraordinary: how to decide between 'politics' or police 'Politics' and effectivity Strategy: from police to 'politics 2. Reflexivity: Untangling the revolution The counter-revolutionary charge Domination and emancipation in critical theory Distinguishing domination via the aesthetics of knowledge Christoph Menke and critical thinking as a practice of reflexivity Reflexivity as dissensual practice 3. Aversivity: Thinking against conformity Appropriating emancipation against conformity Emancipation in Cavell's aversive thinking Dissensual community Exemplars of dissent Provoking the self through aversivity 4. Poeticity: from the glade of the cicadas to the island of the people 'Literarity' or 'literariness'? Ranciere, writing and literarity Re-tracing literarity against Derrida Doubling democracy, doubling literature Poeticity as play with meaning 5. Absurdity: aesthetics of subversion Senses of absurdity From theatre to the streets Subversion as iteration in the work of Judith Butler Reading Butler and Ranciere together Practicing absurdity, living the carnival Reflections on revolutionising: a voyage without a compass

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