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Democracy Against the State: Marx and the Machiavellian Moment

Democracy Against the State: Marx and the Machiavellian Moment Softcover - 2011 - 1st Edition

by Miguel Abensour

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Polity, Cambridge, 2011. First English Language Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". xlvi + 149pp. Internally clean. Binding firm, spine cocked. Edges slightly foxed and marked. Slight curling to covers. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Politics & Government; Modern; Philosophy. ISBN/EAN: 9780745650104. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 49764. . 9780745650104
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  • Title Democracy Against the State: Marx and the Machiavellian Moment
  • Author Miguel Abensour
  • Binding Softcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition First English Language Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good Condition
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Polity, Cambridge
  • Date 2011
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 49764
  • ISBN 9780745650104 / 0745650104
  • Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Democracy, State, The
  • Dewey Decimal Code 321.8

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From the rear cover

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.

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About the author

Miguel Abensour is Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Paris VII - Denis-Diderot.