Prefigurative Democracy: Protest, Social Movements and the Political Institution of Society - Brossura

Van De Sande, Mathijs

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ISBN 10: 1474451861 ISBN 13: 9781474451864

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2024

Riassunto

In the wake of protest movements such as Occupy Wall Street and the Spanish 15-M movement, the past decade has seen an increased interest in prefigurative politics: the attempt of activists to already realise or embody their ideal of a future society within their own movements and practices. Engaging with the concept and its history, this book establishes a radical-democratic theory of prefiguration. Van de Sande builds on the work of political theorists as diverse as Hannah Arendt, Ernesto Laclau, Claude Lefort, Rosa Luxemburg, and Judith Butler to reveal the radical and representative role of protest and social movements today. He gives various accounts of how prefigurative practices and movements may continue to have political relevance long after they have ended.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Mathijs van de Sande teaches political philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen. In 2017, he obtained his PhD at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven with a thesis on the prefigurative repertoire of recent assembly movements, such as Occupy Wall Street. His main research interests are radical democratic theory, political representation, activism and social movement theory.

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Develops a theory of prefigurative democracy as a way of thinking critically about contemporary protest movementsIn the wake of protest movements, such as Occupy Wall Street and the Spanish 15-M, the past decade has seen an increased interest in prefigurative politics: the attempt of activists to realise or embody their ideal of a future society within their own movements and practices. Engaging with the concept and its history, this book establishes a radical democratic theory of prefiguration. Van de Sande builds on the work of political theorists as diverse as Hannah Arendt, Ernesto Laclau, Claude Lefort, Rosa Luxemburg and Judith Butler to reveal the radical and representative role of protest and social movements today. He gives various accounts of how prefigurative practices and movements may continue to have political relevance long after they have ended.Mathijs van de Sande is Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1474451861
• ISBN 13: 9781474451864
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224
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