| Contents |
Exceptionality, autoimmunity, and the question of democracy: summer 2005 -- Politics, equality, and freedom in revolution: December 1914 -- The manufactured subject: melodramatic consciousness and the immunization of the political, July-August, 1937 -- Humanism begets good order: Alfonso Reyes and police thought, September-December 1939 -- "Under the paving stones, the beach!": chance, passive decision, democracy, July-November 1968 -- Absolute hostility and ubiquitous enmity: "The party of the poor" and the militarization of the political, 1967-95. |
| Abstract |
"This book examines the question of democracy in post-revolutionary Mexican society. Each chapter recuperates an event or particular historical sequence that sheds light on the relation between culture and sovereign exceptionality. Each moment or sequence stages a relation to language. In these speech scenes there is a disagreement between social actors (for example, disputes between peasants and intellectuals over words such as democracy, equality, freedom, proletariat, worker, revolution etc.). Democracy in this book is not just a type of Constitution or a form of society that politics affirms on a daily basis. It is the assumption and installation of egalitarian language. Democracy is therefore the momentary interruption or suspension of the police order."--Provided by publisher. |
| Abstract |
"This book examines the question of democracy in post-revolutionary Mexican society. Each chapter recuperates an event or particular historical sequence that sheds light on the relation between culture and sovereign exceptionality. Each moment or sequence stages a relation to language. In these speech scenes there is a disagreement between social actors (for example, disputes between peasants and intellectuals over words such as democracy, equality, freedom, proletariat, worker, revolution etc.). Democracy in this book is not just a type of Constitution or a form of society that politics affirms on a daily basis. It is the assumption and installation of egalitarian language. Democracy is therefore the momentary interruption or suspension of the police order"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-216) and index. |
| LCCN | 2010045303 |
| ISBN | 9780230110243 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 023011024X (hbk.) |
| Standard identifier# |
3653716 |
