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028			_aAtlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd. _b;7/22, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi-110002 _c;1099667 _d;09/08/2019
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100			_aAlain Badiou et.all
245			_aWhat is a people? _c/Alain Badiou et.all
260			_aNew York _b: Columbia University Press _c, 2016.
300			_avii,164 Pages _c;20 cm.
365			_b1732
505			_a Introduction : This People Which Is Not One / Bruno Bosteels -- Twenty-Four Notes on the Uses of the Word "People" / Alain Badiou -- You Said "Popular"? / Pierre Bourdieu -- "We, the People" : Thoughts on Freedom of Assembly / Judith Butler -- To Render Sensible / Georges Didi-Huberman -- The People and the Third People / Sadri Khiari -- The Populism That Is Not to Be Found / Jacques Ranciere -- Conclusion : Fragile Collectivities, Imagined Sovereignties / Kevin Olson.
520			_aThese outspoken intellectuals seek to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic analysis of "popular" and its transformation of democracy, beliefs, songs, and even soups into phenomena with outsized importance. Judith Butler calls out those who use freedom of assembly to create an exclusionary "we." Georges Didi-Huberman addresses the problem of summing up a people with totalizing narratives. Sadri Khiari applies an activist's perspective to the racial hierarchies inherent in ethnic and national categories, and Jacques RanciEre comments on the futility of isolating theories of populism when, as these thinkers have shown, the idea of a "people" is too diffuse to support them. By engaging this topic linguistically, ethnically, culturally, and ontologically, these scholars help separate "people" from its fraught associations to pursue more vital formulations.
650			_aSocial Sciences
655			_a;Political science--Philosophy _b;Democracy
700			_aAlain Badiou et.all
942			_cBOOK