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How do people excluded from political life achieve political
agency? Through a series of historical events that have been mostly
overlooked by political theorists, Martin Breaugh identifies
fleeting yet decisive instances of emancipation in which people
took it upon themselves to become political subjects. Emerging
during the Roman plebs's first secession in 494 BCE, the plebeian
experience consists of an underground or unexplored configuration
of political strategies to obtain political freedom. The people
reject domination through political praxis and concerted action,
therefore establishing an alternative form of power. Breaugh's
study concludes in the nineteenth century and integrates ideas from
sociology, philosophy, history, and political science. Organized
around diverse case studies, his work undertakes exercises in
political theory to show how concepts provide a different
understanding of the meaning of historical events and our political
present. The Plebeian Experience describes a recurring phenomenon
that clarifies struggles for emancipation throughout history,
expanding research into the political agency of the many and
shedding light on the richness of radical democratic struggles from
ancient Rome to Occupy Wall Street and beyond.
How do people excluded from political life achieve political
agency? Through a series of historical events that have been mostly
overlooked by political theorists, Martin Breaugh identifies
fleeting yet decisive instances of emancipation in which people
took it upon themselves to become political subjects. Emerging
during the Roman plebs's first secession in 494 BCE, the plebeian
experience consists of an underground or unexplored configuration
of political strategies to obtain political freedom. The people
reject domination through political praxis and concerted action,
therefore establishing an alternative form of power. Breaugh's
study concludes in the nineteenth century and integrates ideas from
sociology, philosophy, history, and political science. Organized
around diverse case studies, his work undertakes exercises in
political theory to show how concepts provide a different
understanding of the meaning of historical events and our political
present. The Plebeian Experience describes a recurring phenomenon
that clarifies struggles for emancipation throughout history,
expanding research into the political agency of the many and
shedding light on the richness of radical democratic struggles from
ancient Rome to Occupy Wall Street and beyond.
Thinking Radical Democracy is an introduction to nine key political
thinkers who contributed to the emergence of radical democratic
thought in post-war French political theory: Hannah Arendt, Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, Pierre Clastres, Claude Lefort, Cornelius
Castoriadis, Guy Debord, Jacques Ranciere, Etienne Balibar, and
Miguel Abensour. The essays in this collection connect these
writers through their shared contribution to the idea that division
and difference in politics can be perceived as productive,
creative, and fundamentally democratic. The questions they raise
regarding equality and emancipation in a democratic society will be
of interest to those studying social and political thought or
democratic activist movements like the Occupy movements and Idle No
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