Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen

Visions of Council Democracy

Castoriadis, Lefort, Arendt

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the historical emergence of the council system in Russia and Germany by the end of the First World War, reconstructing the intellectual history of council democracy in 20th century political theory.

Produktdetails

• Taking on the Political
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9781474456326
• ISBN-10: 1474456324
• Artikelnr.: 63979953

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School. He has contributed a chapter to Council Democracy: Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics (edited by James Muldoon, Routledge, 2018) and has published a number of journal articles in Danish, German and English.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Why Council Democracy, why Now?
Chapter 1: The Historical Councils in 20th Century Europe
Chapter 2: Political Theory of Council Democracy from Bakunin to Luxemburg
Chapter 3: Institutionalising the Instituting Power? Castoriadis and the
Councils
Chapter 4: Self-Limitation and Democracy: Lefort's Model of Council
Democracy
Chapter 5: Between Liberal Constitutionalism and Permanent Revolution:
Arendt's Republic of Councils
Chapter 6: The Politics of Form: Council Democracy between Transformatory
Politics and Political Form
Conclusion: Council Democracy and Contemporary Movements of Occupation
Bibliography
Endnotes