{"product_id":"visions-of-council-democracy-castoriadis-arendt-lefort-paperback","title":"Visions of Council Democracy: Castoriadis, Lefort, Arendt - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Ask Popp-Madsen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUncovering the neglected theories of the council system in the 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book examines the historical emergence of the council system in Russia and Germany by the end of the First World War, reconstructing the intellectual history of council democracy in 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century political theory, and providing in-depth analysis of council democracy in the political thought of Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort and Hannah Arendt.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePopp-Madsen argues that council democracy can productively be interpreted through the prism of \u003ci\u003econstituent power: \u003c\/i\u003ethe form-giving power of the people to decide on their own institutional forms of political co-existence. Whereas other interpreters of constituent power claim an unbridgeable gap between constituent power and constituted power, this book asserts that council democracy discloses a historically grounded way of institutionalising the constituent power. Council democracy, in this interpretation, becomes a way of controlling the constituent power without completely exhausting it, thereby giving the citizenry continual access to the powers of self-transformation, co-creation and constituent freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eUncovering the neglected theories of the council system in the 20th century This book examines the historical emergence of the council system in Russia and Germany by the end of the First World War, reconstructing the intellectual history of council democracy in 20th century political theory, and providing in-depth analysis of council democracy in the political thought of Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort and Hannah Arendt. Popp-Madsen argues that council democracy can productively be interpreted through the prism of constituent power: the form-giving power of the people to decide on their own institutional forms of political co-existence. Whereas other interpreters of constituent power claim an unbridgeable gap between constituent power and constituted power, this book asserts that council democracy discloses a historically grounded way of institutionalising the constituent power. Council democracy, in this interpretation, becomes a way of controlling the constituent power without completely exhausting it, thereby giving the citizenry continual access to the powers of self-transformation, co-creation and constituent freedom. Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Ask Popp-Madsen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School. He has contributed a chapter to \u003ci\u003eCouncil Democracy: Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (edited by James Muldoon, Routledge, 2018) and has published a number of journal articles in Danish, German and English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 204\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 27, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42119719026823,"sku":"9781474456326","price":51.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/38662bb701ba875c281ab640f1fad7cf.webp?v=1732542717","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/visions-of-council-democracy-castoriadis-arendt-lefort-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}