{"product_id":"what-is-a-people-alain-badiou-9780231168762","title":"What Is a People?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Is a People?\u003c\/i\u003e seeks 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 as 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,\" while 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 Ranci鑽e 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, the voices in this volume help separate \"people\" from its fraught associations to pursue more vital formulations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTogether with \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in What State?\u003c\/i\u003e, in which Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Ranci鑽e, Kristin Ross, and Slavoj Žižek discuss the nature and purpose of democracy today, \u003ci\u003eWhat Is a People?\u003c\/i\u003e expands an essential exploration of political action and being in our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alain Badiou, Judith Butler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231168764\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231168762\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.80w x 0.80d","brand":"Alain Badiou","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43913490366719,"sku":"9780231168762","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e0953c10-3e9d-4d87-8f04-03eaba3818f7.jpg?v=1680620663","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-is-a-people-alain-badiou-9780231168762","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}