New Directions in Critical Theory #: What is a People?

New Directions in Critical Theory #: What is a People?
Jacques Ranciere, Alain Badiou, Jody Gladding, Judith Butler, Pierre Bourdieu, Georges Didi-Huberman, Kevin Olson
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These outspoken intellectuals seek 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 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." 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 Ranci re 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, these scholars help separate "people" from its fraught associations to pursue more vital formulations.

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This exciting and provocative collection of essays reflects on the exclusionary perils and emancipatory potentialities of the concept 'people' and its myriad cognates: popular, peoples, populism, and so forth. With contributions from leading philosophers and social theorists from France, Tunisia, and the United States, What is a People? is a must read for anyone interested in cutting edge work in the tradition of French and Francophone critical theory. -- Amy Allen, Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University The central ambition of this powerful book is to leverage the term "people" away from its conservative recuperations in order to maintain it in the lexical war chest of the politics of emancipation. All of the authors address, in this regard, the same central issue of the problematic status of this category, even though their perspectives and approaches diverge significantly, ranging from linguistic and conceptual analysis to a concern with implicit racial and nationalist politics. The book as a whole thereby makes a major contribution to the critical debate on the category of the people in all of its conceptual extensions: popular sovereignty, populism, popularity, and ambiguous expressions like "we the people." -- Gabriel Rockhill, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University and Director of the Critical Theory Workshop at the Sorbonne
Alain Badiou is Ren Descartes Chair at the European Graduate School and teaches at the cole Normale Superieure and the Coll ge International de Philosophie in Paris. Judith Butler is the Maxine Eliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley. Georges Didi-Huberman is professor at the Centre d'Histoire et Th orie des Arts at the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales. Sadri Khiari is a Tunisian activist who has lived in exile in France since 2003 and is active in Indig nes de la R publique (Movement of the Indigenous of the Republic). Jacques Ranci re is professor of philosophy emeritus at the University of Paris VIII. Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) served as chair of sociology at the Coll ge de France.
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ISBN-13: 9780231168762
Published: 31 May 2016
Published In: United States
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 176
Dewey: 320.5662

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