The Truth of Democracy (Just Ideas)
In a formulation that is perhaps as original as it is disconcerting, The Truth of Democracy concludes that 'democracy is first and foremost a metaphysics and only afterwards a politics'.-Ian JamesThese short essays are packed tight with the sort of incisive reflection that Jean-Luc Nancy always brings to bear on his    subject. The subject of democracy brings out the most generous and    exhilarating dimensions of his thought.  This collection is a very    welcome provocation to raise the level of understanding of what it    is we desire from democracy.-Peggy KamufNancy answers the reductive rewriting of history concerning May '68 with a resounding philosophical salvo, both salutary and exhortatory: think again, he urges, think through the current political impasses--of the Left in crisis, of the unimpeachable logic of economics, of globalized markets, andso on--not just to uncover the necessarily disruptive aspirations of an always perfectible democracy, but to reconceive politics as the incalculability of _being in common_.-David Wills