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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| Language: | English |
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Cosmos and History Publishing Co-op.
2012-05-01
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| 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 |