{"product_id":"9780745650098","title":"Democracy Against the State Marx and the Machiavellian Movement","description":"\u003ch1\u003eDemocracy Against the State\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eMarx and the Machiavellian Movement\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMiguel Abensour\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolitical Science \/ Political Ideologies \/ Democracy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn the \"Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,” the young Marx elliptically alludes to a \"true democracy\" whose advent would go hand in hand with the disappearance of the state. Miguel Abensour’s rigorous interpretation of this seminal text reveals an “unknown Marx” who undermines the identification of democracy with the state and defends a historically occluded form of politics.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e True democracy does not entail the political and economic power of the state, but it does not dream of a post-political society either. On the contrary, the battle of democracy is waged by a demos that invents a public sphere of permanent struggles, a politics that counters political bureaucracy and representation. Democracy is \"won\" by a people forewarned that any dissolution of the political realm in its independence, any subordination to the state, is tantamount to annihilating the site for gaining and regaining a genuinely human existence.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this explicitly heterodox reading of Marx, Miguel Abensour proposes a theory of \"insurgent\" democracy that makes political liberty synonymous with a living critique of domination.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eMiguel Abensour\u003c\/b\u003e is Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Paris VII - Denis-Diderot.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e14 February 2011\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePolity Press\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePolity\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9780745650098\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e200\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e15.52\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44378834665612,"sku":"9780745650098","price":60.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780745650098_486596d6-391d-4b90-90d2-4640af8acf0f.jpg?v=1780181382","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9780745650098","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}