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What Is a People? (Hardcover)
Alain Badiou; Translated by Jody Gladding; Judith Butler, Georges Didi-Huberman, Sadri Khiari, …
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What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective
political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time.
Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of
solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of
categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a
sociolinguistic analysis of "popular" and its transformation of
democracy, beliefs, songs, and even soups into phenomena with
outsized importance. Judith Butler calls out those who use freedom
of assembly to create an exclusionary "we," while Georges
Didi-Huberman addresses the problem of summing up a people with
totalizing narratives. Sadri Khiari applies an activist's
perspective to the racial hierarchies inherent in ethnic and
national categories, and Jacques Ranciere comments on the futility
of isolating theories of populism when, as these thinkers have
shown, the idea of a "people" is too diffuse to support them. By
engaging this topic linguistically, ethnically, culturally, and
ontologically, the voices in this volume help separate "people"
from its fraught associations to pursue more vital formulations.
Together with Democracy in What State?, in which Giorgio Agamben,
Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques
Ranciere, Kristin Ross, and Slavoj Zizek discuss the nature and
purpose of democracy today, What Is a People? expands an essential
exploration of political action and being in our time.
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