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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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