Hatred of Democracy (Radical Thinkers)
Language: English
Pages: 106
ISBN: 1781681503
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In this vehement defence of democracy, Jacques Rancière explodes the complacency of Western politicians who pride themselves as the defenders of political freedom. As America and its allies use their military might in the misguided attempt to export a desiccated version democracy, and reactionary strands in mainstream political opinion abandon civil liberties, Rancière argues that true democracy—government by all—is held in profound contempt by the new ruling class. In a compelling and timely analysis, Hatred of Democracy rethinks the subversive power of the democratic ideal.
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This edition published by Verso 2014 Translation © Steve Corcoran 2006, 2009, 2014 First published as La haine de la démocratie © La Fabrique 2005 All rights reserved The moral rights of the author have been asserted Verso UK: 6 Meard Street, London W1F 0EG US: 20 Jay Street, Suite 1010, Brooklyn, NY 11201 www.versobooks.com Verso is the imprint of New Left Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-150-3 eBook ISBN: 978-1-78168-204-3 eISBN (UK): 978-1-78168-513-6 British Library Cataloguing in.
Democratic procedure by which a people of equals decides the distribution of places. Therein lies the scandal: the scandal for well-to-do people unable to accept that their birth, their age, or their science has to bow before the law of chance; scandal too for those men of God who would have us all be democrats on the condition that we avow having had to kill a father or a shepherd for it, and hence that we are infinitely guilty, are in inexpiable debt to this father. And yet the ‘seventh title’.
Making it into its own private affair and, in so doing, relegating the inventions and sites of intervention of non-State actors to the private domain. Democracy, then, far from being the form of life of individuals dedicated to their private pleasure, is a process of struggle against this privatization, the process of enlarging this sphere. Enlarging the public sphere does not entail, as it is claimed in liberal discourse, asking for State encroachments on society. It entails struggling against.
Is lacking to provide souls with the right proportion of gold, silver or iron, that science is also lacking. The government of science will always end up a government of ‘natural elites’, in which the social power of those with expert competences is combined with the power of wealth, at the cost once more of provoking a democratic disorder that displaces the boundaries of the political. To erase the tension inherent to the republican project to produce homogeneity between State and society means.
Acknowledges it: ‘It is impossible to conceive of a regime which in one sense is not oligarchic.’47 But oligarchy can give democracy more or less room; it is encroached upon by democratic activity to a greater or lesser extent. In this precise sense, the constitutional forms and practices of oligarchic governments can be said to be more or less democratic. Usually the mere existence of a representative system is regarded as the crucial criterion for defining democracy. But this system itself is.