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Democracy Against the State: Marx and the Machiavellian Movement Paperback / softback - 2011 - 1st Edition
by Miguel Abensour
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- Title Democracy Against the State: Marx and the Machiavellian Movement
- Author Miguel Abensour
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 200
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge
- Date 2011-02-07
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9780745650104
- 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
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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- Choice, 10/01/2011, Page 0