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In 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.

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.

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.

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In 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.

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.

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.

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Title Democracy Against the State: Marx and the Machiavellian Movement
Author Miguel Abensour
Binding Paperback
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 200
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge
Date 2011-02-07
Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780745650104 / 0745650104
Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Democracy, State, The
Dewey Decimal Code 321.8

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Miguel Abensour is Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Paris VII - Denis-Diderot.

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Paperback / softback. New. * Miguel Abensour is an influential political philosopher in France, well-known for his highly original interpretations of Marx. * The text provides a reading of the young Marx s work on politics, democracy and the state, linking Marx s writings with elements of Levinas s work and anarchism.