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The Democratic Promise - The Individual Within the Community (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Democratic Promise - The Individual Within the Community (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Postcolonial Studies, 6
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The Democratic Promise engages Slavoj Zizek's psychoanalytic and
cultural reading of politics and terror, Jacques Ranciere's concept
of the partition of the sensible, Alain Badiou's ethics and
politics, and Jacques Derrida's thoughts on philosophy in a time of
terror in order to radically rethink politics in and through
aesthetics as analogies of political subjectivity. This book
interrogates the a priori rights of an individual as universally
declared and what these mean in terms of human agency. By
revisiting the philosophical writings of the Western continental
tradition through the eyes of contemporary political thinkers, it
not only delves into the current debate on democracy but also
investigates the connection between exceptionality and democracy.
Constance Goh asserts here that inter-national or intra-national
conflicts persist despite the global emphasis on cultural diversity
and consideration because of the politics of recognition. The
Democratic Promise also examines the media politics of China and
Tibet's fraught relations so as to argue that Derrida's
democracy-to-come necessitates an-other principle, an
extra-normative tolerance he calls "hostipitality," a host
(un)intentionally transporting a singular other via the vehicle of
aesthetics.
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