The Mexican Exception: Sovereignty, Police, and Democracy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230110243)

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.

Author: G. Williams
ISBN-10: 023011024X
ISBN-13: 9780230110243
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 04/28/2011
Pages: 219
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.70d