Democratic Anarchy by Matthew Scully - 9781531507060

Democratic AnarchyAesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature\nAuthor(s): Matthew Scully\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9781531507060, 978-1531507060\nSynopsis\nA dramatic and necessary rethinking of the meaning of Democracy\n Democratic Anarchy grapples with an uncomfortable but obvious truth inimical to democracy: both aesthetics and politics depend on the structuring antagonism of inclusion and exclusion. Yet in Democratic Anarchy, Matthew Scully asks, how can \""the people\"" be represented in a way that acknowledges what remains unrepresentable? What would it mean to face up to the constitutive exclusions that haunt [url] democracy and its anxious fantasies of equality?\n Synthesizing a broad range of theoretical traditions and interlocutorsincluding Lacan, Rancire, Edelman, and HartmanDemocratic Anarchy polemically declares that there has never been, nor can there ever be, a realized de.