Democracy in the Political Present: A Queer-Feminist Theory (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781839767333)

"Presentist democracy is without a people and without nation. Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo- and transphobia, colonialism and extractivism."

In the midst of the crises and threats to liberal democracy, Isabell Lorey develops a democracy in the present tense; one which breaks open political certainties and linear concepts of progress and growth. Her queer feminist political theory formulates a fundamental critique of masculinist concepts of the people, representation, institutions, and the multitude. In doing so, she unfolds an original concept of a presentist democracy based on care and interrelatedness, on the irreducibility of responsibilities--one which cannot be conceived of without social movements' past struggles and current practices.

Author: Isabell Lorey
ISBN-10: 1839767332
ISBN-13: 9781839767333
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2022
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.43w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/04/2022 pg. 1