Inequality, Loneliness, and Political Appearance
Picturing Radical Democracy with Hannah Arendt and Jacques Rancière
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6351731 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Schaap (0000-0001-9608-0129, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 28-53 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0090591720920215 |
| OpenAlex | W3025225003 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Radical democrats highlight dramatic moments of political action, which disrupt everyday habits of perception that sustain unequal social relations. In doing so, however, we sometimes neglect how social conditions—such as precarious employment, social dislocation, and everyday exposure to violence—undermine political agency or might be contested in uneventful ways. Despite their differences, two thinkers who have significantly influenced radical democratic theory (Hannah Arendt and Jacques Rancière) have been similarly criticized for contributing to such a socially weightless picture of politics. However, attending to how they are each preoccupied by the social conditions of inequality and loneliness enables us to recognize two distinct aspects of democratic politics–emancipation and civility. Cultivating an interpretive flexibility to shift between these aspects of politics might enable radical democrats to more clearly picture how struggles for appearance are limited and shaped by the social conditions within which they are enacted
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Civility · Democracy · Dramaturgy · Emancipation · Loneliness · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · Critical Theory and Political Philosophy · Gender Studies · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |