Claude LefortDemocracy and Political Theory
Übersetzer: Macey, David
Claude Lefort was a French philosopher and activist. He was politically active by 1942 under the influence of his tutor, the phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty. By 1943 he was organising a faction of the Trotskyist Parti Communiste Internationaliste at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. David Macey was an English translator and intellectual historian of the French left. He translated around sixty books from French to English, and wrote biographical studies of Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon.
1. On Modern Democracy
The Question of Democracy
Human Rights and the Welfare State
Hannah Arendt and the Question of the Political
2. On Revolution.
The Revolutionary Terror
Interpreting Revolution with the French Revolution
Edgar Quinet: The Revolution that Failed
The Revolution as Principle and as Individual
Rereading The Communist Manifesto
3. On freedom
Reversibility: Political Freedom and the Freedom of the Individual
From Equality to Freedom: Fragments of an Interpretation of Democracy in
America
4. On the Irreducible Element.
The Permanence of the Theologico-political?
The death of immortality?
