Description: What Is a People? by Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Jody Gladding, Georges Didi-Huberman, Sadri Khiari, Jacques Rancière, Pierre Bourdieu, Bruno Bosteels, Kevin Olson Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description These outspoken intellectuals seek to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. By engaging this topic linguistically, ethnically, culturally, and ontologically, these scholars help separate "people" from its fraught associations to pursue more vital formulations. Publisher Description 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 activists perspective to the racial hierarchies inherent in ethnic and national categories, and Jacques Rancière 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 Rancière, Kristin Ross, and Slavoj ?i?ek discuss the nature and purpose of democracy today, What Is a People? expands an essential exploration of political action and being in our time. Author Biography Alain Badiou (PhD, Philosophy, Ecole Normale Superieure) holds the Rene Descartes Chair at the European Graduate School; he also teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and the College International de Philosophie in Paris. He is the author of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works, including his masterwork, Being and Event (Continuum, 2007), and several Columbia titles, includng Platos Republic (2013) and Jacques Lacan Past and Present (2016). Details ISBN 0231168764 ISBN-13 9780231168762 Title What Is a People? Author Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Jody Gladding, Georges Didi-Huberman, Sadri Khiari, Jacques Rancière, Pierre Bourdieu, Bruno Bosteels, Kevin Olson Format Hardcover Year 2016 Pages 176 Publisher Columbia University Press GE_Item_ID:161833812; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9780231168762
Book Title: What Is a People?
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Publication Name: What Is a People?
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Social Classes & Economic Disparity, History & Theory, Political, Social Psychology, Movements / Critical Theory, Political Ideologies / Democracy
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2016
Item Weight: 13.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Philosophy, Social Science, Psychology
Author: Judith. Butler, Sadri Khiari, Alain. Badiou, Georges Didi-Huberman
Item Length: 8.7 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Series: New Directions in Critical Theory Ser.
Format: Hardcover
