Description: Further DetailsTitle: What Is a People?Condition: NewEAN: 9780231168762ISBN: 9780231168762Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/03/2016Language: EnglishItem Height: 210mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: Judith Butler, Pierre Bourdieu, Alain Badiou, Georges Didi-Huberman, Sadri Khiari, Jacques RancièreTranslator: Jody GladdingContributor: Bruno Bosteels (Introduction by), Kevin Olson (Afterword by), Jody Gladding (Translated by)ISBN-10: 0231168764Description: What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic analysis of "popular" and its transformation of democracy, beliefs, songs, and even soups into phenomena with outsized importance. Judith Butler calls out those who use freedom of assembly to create an exclusionary "we," while Georges Didi-Huberman addresses the problem of summing up a people with totalizing narratives. Sadri Khiari applies an activist's perspective to the racial hierarchies inherent in ethnic and national categories, and Jacques Ranciere comments on the futility of isolating theories of populism when, as these thinkers have shown, the idea of a "people" is too diffuse to support them. By engaging this topic linguistically, ethnically, culturally, and ontologically, the voices in this volume help separate "people" from its fraught associations to pursue more vital formulations. Together with Democracy in What State?, in which Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Ranciere, Kristin Ross, and Slavoj Zizek discuss the nature and purpose of democracy today, What Is a People?expands an essential exploration of political action and being in our time.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: New Directions in Critical TheoryTopic: Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: What Is a People?
Title: What Is a People?
EAN: 9780231168762
ISBN: 9780231168762
Release Date: 05/03/2016
Release Year: 2016
Translator: Jody Gladding
Contributor: Jody Gladding (Translated by)
ISBN-10: 0231168764
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: What Is a People?
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: Social Classes & Economic Disparity, History & Theory, Political, Social Psychology, Movements / Critical Theory, Political Ideologies / Democracy
Item Weight: 13.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 0.9 in
Subject Area: Philosophy, Political Science, Social Science, Psychology
Author: Alain Badiou, Judith. Butler, Sadri Khiari, Georges Didi-Huberman
Series: New Directions in Critical Theory Ser.
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
