...Emily O'Rourke A review of Rancière Jacques , Mute Speech , translated by Swenson James ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2011 ). Cited in the text as ms . Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 For the Love of Democracy On the Politics of Jacques Rancière’s History...

...Saba Mahmood Copyright © 2006 Qui Parle 2006 s: RETOOLING DEMOCRACY AND FEMINISM IN THE SERVICE OFTIIE NEW EMPIRE' SabaMahmood W hile the war on Iraq has been raging with no end in sight, the European...

... conceptions of history, time, and religious practice. This story of temporality is staked on the question of “influence,” which has a genealogy that includes not just colonial, missionary, liberal politics but also contemporary legal-political questions about foreign influence on democracy and sovereignty...

... history of being, on the ends of philosophy that we must reckon with, on origins and archaeophilia , on the an-archique essence of philosophy and democracy—and this means for us, on another sense of commencement than arche , which could allow us to prepare another beginning of philosophy than...

... to facilitate a transnational citizen’s movement, which in turn could inspire the creation of democratic transnational institutions. The fi gure of the “cosmopolitan” has gained prominence as an agent of global justice, peace, and democracy. In the face of the increasing transnational...

... was partially offset by a democratic legacy, set of liberal ideals, and a commitment to public values that strongly resonated with America’s claim on the principles of democracy.8 The institutional setting provided a space for the nurturing of democratic ideals and offered both a shelter for radi- cal...

... on the theory and philosophy of education, with particular attention to the interrelationships among education, citizenship, and democracy. His recent books include Learning Democracy in School and Society: Education, Lifelong Learning and the Politics of Citizenship (2011), Good Education in an Age...

... is in order for those seek- ing to better understand the integrity of United States democracy. In his essay "Declarations of Independence," Jacques Derrida offers us a brief but shrewd deconstructive critique of the American Union's foundational declaration of its freedoms. Among other things...

... less to sustain. In a similar vein, for Jacques Rancière, democracy is not “just a word” but a rather “a disposition of the name and appearance of the people, a way of keeping the people present in their absence.”11 Relatedly, Sheldon Wolin argues that, if sovereignty is to be understood...

...R. D. Perry A review of Scarry Elaine , Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing between Democracy and Doom ( New York : Norton , 2014 ). Cited in the text as tm . Copyright © 2015 Qui Parle 2015 The Nation in Pain Elaine Scarry’s Idiosyncratic Political Theory r. d. perry...

... when one takes into account more recent theories of democracy, which maintain that democratic politics is in part located where it itself is divided— that is, where communities are called into question by their other(s) and compelled to change. In the context of such re- fl ections...

..., Warren. Adventures of the Symbolic: Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Brennan, Timothy. Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2014. Bronfen, Elisabeth. Night Passages...

... to command, to commandeer. The student uprisings were always about much more than cuts; students stood up without hesitation, and still stand against the eviction of democracy from politics and the simultane- ous eviction of people(s) from public space. The illusionary integrity of British...

... rights politics today, following a reading of Hannah Arendt that Benhabib actually endorses. (I don’t really address democracy in my book.)7 Benhabib is known for extending Habermas’s insight into the “equiprimordiality” of democracy and rights to current debates about the international scene...

...Andrew Stefan Weiner Courtesy MIT Press REVIEW ESSAY CHANGING CHANNELS: OA CAST TELEVISION, EARLY VIDEO, AND THE POLITICS OF NETWORKED MEDIA Andrew Stefan Weiner David Joselit, Feedback: Television Against Democracy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007...

..., Borders.” 5. Nancy, Partir , 46 . 6. Nancy, Partir , 46 . 7. Nancy, Partir , 47 . 8. Whitman, Complete Poetry and Collected Prose , 31 (hereafter cited as CP ). 9. See especially the “democratic vistas” (Whitman’s phrase) of Nancy’s Truth of Democracy...

... in our political points of view as fundamental differences in who we are as human beings” ( pr , 211). 11 Cramer concludes by worrying that while “contentiousness is not necessarily resentment” ( pr , 220), democracies may “always tend toward a politics of resentment, in which savvy politicians...

... for the establishment and reproduction of a society according to neoliberal design. Furthermore, because of the indispensability of state functions of a certain kind, neoliberal thought also has to ponder other aspects of political theory that are state-related, such as the status of democracy...

... Worlds . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2017 . Rockwell Gabriel . Counter-history of the Present: Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . Rounthwaire Adair . Asking the Audience...

... opportu- nity to envision and enact the next. Notes 1. Louis Henken, The Age of Rights (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990), xvii. 2. Abdou Filali-Ansari, “The Languages of the Arab Revolutions,” Journal of Democracy 23, no. 2 (April 2012): 5– 18. 3. Jean L. Cohen, “Rethinking...