Anarchist Critique of Radical Democracy
Subtitle: The Impossible Argument
By: Markus Lundström
Edition: First edition
Series: The Theories, Concepts and Practices of Democracy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Cham, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9783319769769
Copyright date: 2018
Description: This book addresses the conflictual nature of radical democracy. By analyzing democratic conflict in Husby, a marginalized Stockholm city district, it exposes democracy’s core division – between governors and governed – as theorized by Jacques Rancière. Tracing the genealogy of that critique, the book interrogates a historical tradition generically adverse to every form of governance, namely anarchism. By outlining the divergent and discontinuous relationship between democracy and anarchy – within the history of anarchist thought – the author adds to democratic theory ‘The Impossible Argument’: a compound anarchist critique of radical democracy.

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Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: vii; label: 1
title: The Search for Radical Democracy
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Democratic Conflict
pagenum: 11; title: Husby’s Democratic Life
pagenum: 14; title: Intensified Conflict
pagenum: 18; title: Threat to Democracy
pagenum: 23; label: 3
title: Democracy and Anarchy
pagenum: 27; title: Anarchist Critique
pagenum: 34; title: Against Authority
pagenum: 35; title: Against Representation
pagenum: 41; title: Against Majority Rule
pagenum: 44; title: Anarchist Reclamation
pagenum: 50; title: Direct Democracy
pagenum: 52; title: Toward Anarchy
pagenum: 57; title: Reclaimed Critique
pagenum: 61; title: Democracy and Non-Human Life
pagenum: 63; title: Anarchy and Radical Democracy
pagenum: 67; title: The Impossible Argument
pagenum: 70; label: 4
title: The Impossible Argument to Radical Democracy
pagenum: 77; title: References
pagenum: 83; title: Index
pagenum: 101