Why so timely? Politics of representation and its entanglement in presentism
| Autor: | Arda Güçler |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Philosophy & Social Criticism. 46:224-246 |
| ISSN: | 1461-734X 0191-4537 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0191453719839452 |
| Popis: | What gives representation its democratic essence? The recent democratic theory literature, particularly spearheaded by Nadia Urbinati, defends representative mediation as a facilitator of ongoing democratic contestation and revision. While I agree with this agonistic defence, I take issue with how Urbinati construes it. For her, representative contestation works in the teleological sense of testing opinions over time and sublimating them into ideological forms as a safeguard against the threat of immediacy (i.e. arbitrariness and authenticity). This article locates the traces of such presentism within Urbinati’s own teleological framework, which I see as compromising her commitment to the agonistic vein in representative politics. When our relationship to the future is imagined from such a teleological angle, I argue, the scope of our representative options becomes significantly narrowed down and the possibility of beginning anew looks quite slim. I develop this critique by tapping into Jacques Derrida’s affirmation of untimeliness. |
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