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  What Is a People?

*Pub Date:* May 2016

*ISBN:* 9780231168762

176 Pages

*Format:* Hardcover


  What Is a People?

Alain Badiou, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Georges Didi-Huberman, 
Sadri Khiari, and Jacques Rancière. Translated by Jody Gladding. 
Introduction by Bruno Bosteels. Conclusion by Kevin Olson.

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/What Is a People?/ seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political 
concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou 
surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and 
emancipation and as a negative tool of categorization and suppression. 
Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic analysis of "popular" and 
its transformation of democracy, beliefs, songs, and even soups into 
phenomena with outsized importance. Judith Butler calls out those who 
use freedom of assembly to create an exclusionary "we," while Georges 
Didi-Huberman addresses the problem of summing up a people with 
totalizing narratives. Sadri Khiari applies an activist's perspective to 
the racial hierarchies inherent in ethnic and national categories, and 
Jacques Rancière comments on the futility of isolating theories of 
populism when, as these thinkers have shown, the idea of a "people" is 
too diffuse to support them. By engaging this topic linguistically, 
ethnically, culturally, and ontologically, the voices in this volume 
help separate "people" from its fraught associations to pursue more 
vital formulations.

Together with /Democracy in What State?/, in which Giorgio Agamben, 
Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques 
Rancière, Kristin Ross, and Slavoj Žižek discuss the nature and purpose 
of democracy today, /What Is a People?/ expands an essential exploration 
of political action and being in our time.


    About the Author

Alain Badiou is emeritus professor of philosophy at the École Normale 
Supérieure in Paris.

Barbara Cassin is a French linguist and philosopher and director of 
research at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris.

Kenneth Reinhard is associate professor of English and comparative 
literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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