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The Lessons of Ranciere (Paperback)
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The Lessons of Ranciere (Paperback)
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"Liberal democracy" is the name given to a regime that much of the
world lives in or aspires to, and both liberal and deliberative
theorists focus much of their intellectual energy on working to
reshape and perfect this regime. But what if "liberal democracy"
were a contradiction in terms?
Taking up Jacques Ranciere's polemical claim that democracy is not
a regime, Samuel A. Chambers argues that liberalism and democracy
are not complementary, but competing forces. By way of the most
in-depth and rigorous treatment of Ranciere's writings to date, The
Lessons of Ranciere seeks to disentangle democracy from liberalism.
Liberalism is a logic of order and hierarchy, of the proper
distribution of responsibilities and rights, whereas democratic
politics follows a logic of disordering that challenges and
disrupts any claims that the allocation of roles could be complete.
This book mobilizes a Rancierean understanding of politics as
leverage against the tendency to collapse democracy into the
broader terms of liberalism. Chambers defends a vision of "impure"
politics, showing that there is no sphere proper to politics, no
protected political domain. The job of political theory is
therefore not to say what is required in order for politics to
occur, not to develop ideal "normative" models of politics, and not
even to create new political ontologies. Instead, political theory
is itself an enactment of politics in Ranciere's sense of
dissensus: politics thwarts any social order of domination.
Chambers shows that the logic of politics depends on the same
principle as Ranciere's radical pedagogy: the presupposition of
equality. Like traditional critical theory, traditional pedagogy
relies on a model of explanation in which the student is presumed
to be blind. But what if anyone can understand without additional
explanation from a master? The Lessons of Ranciere uses this
pedagogy as a guide to envision a critical theory beyond blindness
and to explore a democratic politics beyond liberalism."
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