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Demokracja radykalna
Radical Democracy

Author(s): Grażyna Żurkowska
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Filozofów Krajów Słowiańskich
Keywords: passive subjectivity; active subjectivity; postdemocracy; a post-proprietary world; a myth of political and epistemological representativeness

Summary/Abstract: Radical democracy is not a political system. The author agrees with J.J. Rousseau that “true democracy never existed and will not exist”. She also agrees with J. Rancière that it is not guaranteed by any institution, codex or law. Radical democracy begins and ends in every single man. Its foundation power is the human being, the individual’s self-agency and its ability to transform the individual’s own distracted powers into a dynamic projection of personal presence in the world. Human presence manifests itself only by self-agentive acts.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 51-64
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish
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