Bryan Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6188853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bryan Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bryan |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Democracy and Defiance
Puts forward a bold, polemical interpretation of democracy as an emancipatory political project through the work of Jacques Rancière, Claude Lefort and Miguel Abensour For the first time in a single volume, this book carefully assembles, introduces and critically evaluates some of the most important strains of the political thought of Jacques Rancière, Claude Lefort and Miguel Abensour specifically tailored for the English reader and student of s…
Democracy and Defiance
This book offers a timely scholarly contribution to the small, but growing literature on “radical” or “postfoundational” theories of democracy. It both documents and evaluates a productive, yet often neglected current in contemporary French political thought that functions to at once challenge the limits of our understanding of democracy and help us to rethink its broader social and political implications. Organising something of a unique triangu…
Lefort, Abensour and the question
One of the more perplexing terms to appear across Claude Lefort’s later oeuvre, ‘wild’ or ‘savage’ democracy ( démocratie sauvage) has proved a difficult and divisive facet of Lefort’s political philosophy. Enigmatic, provocative, stubbornly undefined, while savage democracy is often simply ignored by many scholars of Lefort’s work, others, such as Miguel Abensour, place it at the very centre of their interpretation of his thought. This essay con…
Marx, Machiavelli, insurgent democracy
Politics of the senses
Creating Families
This article examines an alternative marriage and family teaching method that provides students with a realistic clinical experience and increases their empathic understanding of family diversity. When the instructor incorporates a highly structured role-play protocol into the syllabus, students learn to create realistic family scenarios, without falling prey to the two main traps of role-play: the ill-prepared example that does not represent rea…
Lefort, Abensour and the question
One of the more perplexing terms to appear across Claude Lefort’s later oeuvre, ‘wild’ or ‘savage’ democracy ( démocratie sauvage) has proved a difficult and divisive facet of Lefort’s political philosophy. Enigmatic, provocative, stubbornly undefined, while savage democracy is often simply ignored by many scholars of Lefort’s work, others, such as Miguel Abensour, place it at the very centre of their interpretation of his thought. This essay con…
Creating Families
This article examines an alternative marriage and family teaching method that provides students with a realistic clinical experience and increases their empathic understanding of family diversity. When the instructor incorporates a highly structured role-play protocol into the syllabus, students learn to create realistic family scenarios, without falling prey to the two main traps of role-play: the ill-prepared example that does not represent rea…
Politics of the senses
Marx, Machiavelli, insurgent democracy
Lefort, Abensour and the question
One of the more perplexing terms to appear across Claude Lefort’s later oeuvre, ‘wild’ or ‘savage’ democracy ( démocratie sauvage) has proved a difficult and divisive facet of Lefort’s political philosophy. Enigmatic, provocative, stubbornly undefined, while savage democracy is often simply ignored by many scholars of Lefort’s work, others, such as Miguel Abensour, place it at the very centre of their interpretation of his thought. This essay con…
Democracy and Defiance
Puts forward a bold, polemical interpretation of democracy as an emancipatory political project through the work of Jacques Rancière, Claude Lefort and Miguel Abensour For the first time in a single volume, this book carefully assembles, introduces and critically evaluates some of the most important strains of the political thought of Jacques Rancière, Claude Lefort and Miguel Abensour specifically tailored for the English reader and student of s…
Democracy and Defiance
This book offers a timely scholarly contribution to the small, but growing literature on “radical” or “postfoundational” theories of democracy. It both documents and evaluates a productive, yet often neglected current in contemporary French political thought that functions to at once challenge the limits of our understanding of democracy and help us to rethink its broader social and political implications. Organising something of a unique triangu…
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