Democracy in Spite of the Demos: From Arendt to the Frankfurt School

194 Pages·2020·1.519 MB·English

by  Larry Alan Busk

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DEMOCRACY IN SPITE OF
THE DEMOS
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DEMOCRACY IN SPITE OF
THE DEMOS
From Arendt to the Frankfurt School
Larry Alan Busk
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If all political tendencies could make use of democracy,
then this proved that it had no political content and was
only an organizational form; and if one regarded it from
the perspective of some political program that one
hoped to achieve with the help of democracy, then one
had to ask oneself what value democracy itself had
merely as a form.
—Carl Schmitt
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CONTENTS
Preface xi
AntonioY.Vázquez-Arroyo
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction xvii
1 TheCategoricalImperativeofDemocracy 1
2 Arendt’sIslandofFreedom 23
3 DemocracyatItsLimits:Rancière,Mouffe,andLaclau 51
4 From“FalseDemocracy”toFalseDemos:Adorno,
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