Lefort and the Problem of Democratic Citizenship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4789539 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Blackell (York University in Toronto, Canada; Malaspina University-College in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-62 |
| Publication date | 2006-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513606068775 |
| OpenAlex | W2121623875 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
To interpret the possibilities of a Lefort-inspired theory of citizenship requires first that we depart from traditional liberal and republican theories of citizenship that conceive of the citizen's attachment to the political order in terms of interest or virtue. A Lefort-inspired theory of citizenship must also reconfigure the object of citizen attachment from an 'empty place' of power to an 'absent-presence'. The nature of modern democratic citizenship is framed in terms of ambivalence as a symptom of the symbolic order of democracy, and the precarious nature of political attachment in modern democracy is read as paralleling the precariousness of the symbolic order of modern democracy. In the face of this ambivalence, the possibilities of a Lefort-inspired theory of citizenship are conceived of explicitly not in terms of identification between competing political principles but in terms of a partial gesture of love to a metaphysical limit of democratic political society
Ambivalence · Citizenship · Democracy · Epistemology · Good citizenship · Metaphysics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Virtue · European Political History Analysis · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Sociology, Political Theory · Political Theory and Influence · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2013 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |