"Understanding & Acting" conference
What alternative to the “crisis of representation”?
Lecture by Jean-Paul Jouary, Associate Professor and Doctor of Philosophy, Senior Chair Professor, and author of some thirty books, including Rousseau, citoyen du futur and Mandela, une philosophie en actes.
Abstract:
What we commonly call democracy today is essentially "representative democracy", which consists of citizens electing one or more people who will decide the fate of all for a certain period of time. A free dispossession of power in favor of "representatives". But what does "re-presenting" mean? We know what it means with regard to an absent person, a minor child or a mentally insane person, but what does it mean for a people? This form of democracy is visibly in crisis, while various new forms of political existence are developing. Is there an alternative to "representative democracy"?
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- Books:
- Jean-Paul Jouary, Rousseau, citoyen du futur, Le Livre de Poche, 2012
- Rousseau, Contrat social, 1761
- Claude Lefort, Essais sur le politique, Le Seuil, 1986
- Bernard Manin, Principes du gouvernement représentatif, Flammarion, 1997
- Armatia Sen, La démocratie des autres, Rivages poche, 2003
- Bernard Vasseur, La démocratie anesthésiée, L’Atelier, 2011
- A. Ogien et Sandra Laugier, Le principe démocratie, La découverte, 2014
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