Prefigurative Democracy: Protest, Social Movements and the Political Institution of Society - Couverture rigide

Van De Sande, Mathijs

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1474451853 ISBN 13 : 9781474451857

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Develops a theory of prefigurative democracy as a way of thinking critically about contemporary protest movementsIn the wake of protest movements, such as Occupy Wall Street and the Spanish 15-M, the past decade has seen an increased interest in prefigurative politics: the attempt of activists to realise or embody their ideal of a future society within their own movements and practices. Engaging with the concept and its history, this book establishes a radical democratic theory of prefiguration. Van de Sande builds on the work of political theorists as diverse as Hannah Arendt, Ernesto Laclau, Claude Lefort, Rosa Luxemburg and Judith Butler to reveal the radical and representative role of protest and social movements today. He gives various accounts of how prefigurative practices and movements may continue to have political relevance long after they have ended.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Mathijs van de Sande, Lecturer in Political Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474451853
• ISBN 13: 9781474451857
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
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