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Author Lefort, Claude.

Title Democracy and political theory / Claude Lefort ; translated by David Macey
Published Cambridge, UK : Polity Press in association with Basil Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 1988

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Description viii, 295 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. I On Modern Democracy -- 1.The Question of Democracy -- 2.Human Rights and the Welfare State -- 3.Hannah Arendt and the Question of the Political -- pt. II On Revolution -- 4.The Revolutionary Terror -- 5.Interpreting Revolution within the French Revolution -- 6.Edgar Quinet: The Revolution That Failed -- 7.The Revolution as Principle and as Individual -- 8.Rereading The Communist Manifesto -- pt. III On Freedom -- 9.Reversibility Political Freedom and the Freedom of the Individual -- 10.From Equality to Freedom Fragments of an Interpretation of Democracy in America -- pt. IV On the Irreducible Element -- 11.The Permanence of the Theologico-Political? -- 12.The Death of Immortality?
Analysis Democracy
Notes Translation of: Essais sur le politique
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-288)
Notes Translation of: Essais sur le politique
Subject Democracy -- France.
Democracy.
Revolutions -- France.
Revolutions.
SUBJECT France -- Politics and government -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051476
France -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051484
LC no. 89194436
ISBN 0745604374
Other Titles Essais sur le politique. English