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Historical Dilemmas of Democracy and Their Contemporary Relevance for Citizenship

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Balibar, Étienne
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	This essay discusses the dialectical relationship between the concepts of “democracy” and “citizenship,” by relating to current debates which combine a transformation of the philosophical tradition and an evaluation of situations where the legal distinction between the “citizen” and the “national” is challenged. Starting with considerations on the semantic tensions of the “Greek” and “Roman” categories (politeia, demokratia, isonomia, ius civitatis), it discusses the aporias of “democracy” as a model or an ideology, which philosophers like Jacques Ranciere and Hannah Arendt allow us to overcome by defining democracy as a process of permanent anti-oligarchic “insurrection” rather than a stable regime. It is not the spread of democracy, therefore, that constitutes the primordial object of political theory, but the “democratization of democracy” itself, especially in the form of the elimination of its internal exclusions. This theory is illustrated and further refined by referring to debates about class and ...
Starting Page	522
Ending Page	538
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.1080/08935690802299363
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/politicaltheoryreadinggroup/files/2013/02/Balibar-Historical-Dilemmas-of-Democracy-and-Their-Contemporary-Relevance-for-Citizenship-2.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1080/08935690802299363
Volume Number	20
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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