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The series aims to renew and advance the program of critical social theory, with a particular focus on theorizing contemporary struggles around gender, race, sexuality, class, and globalization and their complex interconnections.  \nNarrating Evil: A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgment, María Pía Lara The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory, Amy Allen Democracy and the Political Unconscious, Noëlle McAfee The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment, Alessandro Ferrara Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence, Adriana Cavarero Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World, Nancy Fraser Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory, Axel Honneth  \nStates Without Nations: Citizenshipfor Mortals, Jacqueline Stevens The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism, and Modernity, Donna V. Jones  \ndemocracy in what state?  \nGiorgio Agamben Alain Badiou Daniel Bensaïd Wendy Brown Jean-Luc Nancy Jacques Rancière Kristin Ross Slavoj Žižek  \nTranslationsfrom the French by William McCuaig  \ncolumbia university press new york  \nc o l u m b I a u N I v e r s I t y p r e s s  \nPublishers Since 1893  \nNew York Chichester, West Sussex  \nDémocratie, dans quel état? copyright © 2009 La Fabrique English translation copyright © 2011 Columbia University Press All rights reserved  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Démocratie, dans quel état?. English Democracy in what state? / Giorgio Agamben   [et al.] ; translations from the French by William McCuaig.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(New directions in critical theory) Includes bibliographical references.  \nISBN 978-0-231-15298-3 (cloth: alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-231-52708-8 (e-book)  \n1. Democracy—Philosophy. I. Agamben, Giorgio, 1942–  \nII. McCuaig, William, 1949– III. Title. IV. Series.  \nJC423 . D46313 2010  \n321.8—dc22  \n2010023553  \nColumbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper.  \nThis book was printed on paper with recycled content.  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nc 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nReferences to Internet Web sites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor Columbia University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared.  \ncontents  \nforeword by the french publisher vii translator ’s note ix  \nIntroductory Note on the Concept of Democracy  \ngiorgio ag am ben 1  \nThe Democratic Emblem  \nalain bad iou 6  \nPermanent Scandal  \ndaniel ben sa ï d 16  \n“We Are All Democrats Now  ”  \nwendy brown 44  \nFinite and Infinite Democracy jean-luc nancy 58  \nDemocracies Against Democracy jacques ran ci è re 76  \nDemocracy for Sale kristin ross 82  \nFrom Democracy to Divine Violence slavoj ž i ž ek 100  \nnote s 121  \nauthors 129  \nfo r ewo r d by t h e f r e Nc h p u b l Is h e r  \nContributors to a number of editions of La Révolution surréaliste in the 1920s were requested to find something new to say about topics on which it seemed at the time that everything sayable had been said—love, suicide, the devil’s bargain, things like that. Nevertheless, by casting intersecting beams, the answers they received from Artaud, Crevel, de Naville, Ernst, and Buñuel did succeed in throwing the chosen topics into high relief. This quality of illumination can still surprise us, close to a century later.  \nThe present collection was conceived in homage to that model. The question put to our contributors was this:  \nThe word democracy appears to generate universal consensus these days. 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