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Of citizens and plebeians: Postnational political figures in Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Rancière.
- Source :
- European Law Journal; Sep2019, Vol. 25 Issue 5, p502-507, 6p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- This paper focuses on Habermas's notion of cosmopolitan democracy. Reconfiguring the basic ideas of democracy in postnational terms is inevitable if social and political integration is to succeed on a supranational level. In exploring Habermas's ideas, we draw on Rancière, whose thought stands in a complex relationship to Habermas. On the one hand, Rancière largely shares Habermas's diagnosis of the present. Both bemoan the erosion of the political caused by post‐democracy and censure the rise of right‐wing extremism in Western societies. On the other hand, and in contrast to Habermas, Rancière holds that these problems should be addressed not primarily by strengthening political institutions and reaching a consensus between conflicting parties, but by rethinking conflict and resistance. We show that Habermas's and Rancière's propositions can be productively brought in dialogue by focusing on the paradigmatic types of political subjectivity involved in their accounts: the citizen (Habermas) and the plebeian (Rancière). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- COSMOPOLITAN democracy
DEMOCRACY
NATIONALISM
PHILOSOPHERS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13515993
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- European Law Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 139884615
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/eulj.12344