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Mouffe and Balibar on Democratic Citizenship
Chantal Mouffe, “Democratic Citizenship and the Political Community,” The Return of the Political, Verso, 2005 (1993).
Etienne Balibar, “Historical Dilemmas of Democracy and Their Contemporary Relevance for Citizenship,” Rethinking Marxism 20:4 (2008).
As a part of a project to achieve “a radical and plural democracy,” Mouffe tries to articulate how citizenship could and should be constructed as… »
Jacques Rancière - On the Shores of Politics
Jacques Rancière, On the Shores of Politics, Verso, 2007.
As is easily noticed, Rancière’s book is full of political (and ethical) concepts, ancient Greek terms and fables, and stories drawn from workers’ movement in the modern period. Among them, what he really interested in and trying to keep focusing on is the problem of democracy, equality,… »
Max Weber, Economy and Society
I have no background in sociology and it is my first chance of reading Max Weber, though I have encountered a lot his name in my various reading experience. Economy and Society is dealing with extremely broad subject from religion to politics and economy and has unique structure unfolding its subject matter from small and… »






