How to Criticize Our SocietiesT? Part II: The Radical Philosophical Critique of Capitalism and Democracy

• Autorzy: Znepolski Boyan
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

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The article aims to study the usages of the “people” as a critical idea in the texts of two contemporary radical political philosophers: Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou. The author’s intention is not so much to point out the divergence between them, rather it is to grasp a common trend imposing the figure of the “people” as a main subject of the political and as a source of a desired, but hardly conceivable social change. The strong appeal to an epochal rupture, yet unsupported by any utopia, could be considered as a double crisis—of the institutions of liberal democracy as well as of the critical imagi-nation itself.

Słowa kluczowe

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people; democracy; capitalism; rupture; event; divine violence

• Wydawca: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Czasopismo: Dialogue and Universalism
• Rocznik: 2016
• Numer: 2
• Strony: 49-64

Twórcy

autor

Znepolski Boyan

• University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski,” 15 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd, 1504 Sofia, Bulgaria