Chapter 6. Debating Constructivism and Democracy in 1970s France
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23749384 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Disch (0000-0003-1445-4428, corresponding author), Lisa Jane Disch |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 107-121 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Making Constituencies (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7208/chicago/9780226804477.003.0007 |
| OpenAlex | W4312677638 |
| ISBN | 9780226804477 |
| Language | EN |
Chapter 6 (and the one that follows) provides the theoretical justification for the intuition that links the arguments of these various chapters together: that democratic political representation urgently requires plurality as its enabling condition. In this chapter, I build the architecture for this claim from the political theory of Claude Lefort, who was the first to name indeterminacy—the irreducibility of political divisions to (putatively) given social differences—as the democratic legacy of the French Revolution.
Constructivism (international relations) · Democracy · Epistemology · Indeterminacy (philosophy) · International relations · Intuition · Irreducibility · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics) · Social science · Sociology · Law · North African History and Literature · Philosophy · Philosophy, Sociology, Political Theory · Political and Social Issues
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |