The Politics of Presentation: On Badiou as Reader of Rousseau

This paper explores the distinction between representative and presentative conceptions of politics in the works of Alain Badiou and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Analyzing Badiou’s reading of Rousseau’s Social Contract, the paper shows that, contrary to a common view, Rousseau is not a normative theorist...

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Main Author: Edvard Marko Lorkovic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cosmos and History Publishing Co-op. 2012-05-01
Series:Cosmos and History : the Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
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Online Access:http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/viewFile/240/436