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854El kitsch políticoPrometeo. 2003.Sections of the mass media report so closely on political decision-making that politicians cannot ignore the media when making decisions ; this book questions whether the decision-making process is now more important than any political action deriving from the decisions. Media appearances are no longer adjuncts to the political process ; they are the process.
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345The Aesthetic Regime of PoliticsAzimith. Philosophical Coordinates in Modern and Contemporary Age 2 (I): 137-149. 2013.
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404The Aesthetico-Political: The Question of Democracy in Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and RancièreBloomsbury Academic. 2014.This study uses new arguments to reinvestigate the relation between aesthetics and politics in the contemporary debates on democratic theory and radical democracy. First, Carl Schmitt and Claude Lefort help delineate the contours of an aesthetico-political understanding of democracy, which is developed further by studying Merleau-Ponty, Rancière, and Arendt. The ideas of Merleau-Ponty serve to establish a general "ontological" framework that aims to contest the dominant currents in contemporar…Read more
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26Political Horizons in AmericaSocial Imaginaries 4 (2): 71-86. 2018.In this paper, I go back to French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s influence on Claude Lefort’s theory of democracy in order to offer a revised understanding of political regimes as coexisting and competing horizons of politics. These horizons develop from differing positions regarding the political enigma of the institution of society—its staging, its shaping, and its making sense of itself. A theological understanding of such political institution of society will be described as fundamenta…Read more
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44Neither/Nor: Mapping Latin America's Response to Neoliberalism and NeoconservatismConstellations 14 (3): 355-372. 2007.
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The Enigma of Democracy: Outline of a Concept of Democratic Political ActionDissertation, New School University. 2004.The goal of this dissertation is to generate a theoretical perspective and a political vocabulary capable of giving an account of political action proper in the context of modern democracy. The first step is that of tracing back to the origins of the theory and practice of modern democracy the appearance of the features that gave shape to the institutional constellation we now understand as democratic politics. This looking back from the perspective of the main institutions of contemporary democ…Read more
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657Our element: Flesh and democracy in Merleau-PontyContinental Philosophy Review 45 (2): 235-259. 2012.Although Merleau-Ponty’s early phenomenology of perception and his essays on art, politics, and language already showed an affinity between the aesthetic phenomena of expression and style and the political and cultural dynamics of society at large, this paper specifically focuses on his late theorizing of the notion of flesh and its relevance to his late understanding of politics and democracy. The emergence of flesh as a concept was contemporary to Merleau-Ponty’s break with Marxism as a philos…Read more
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51The Democratico-Political: Social Flesh and Political Forms in Lefort and Merleau-PontyTheory and Event 12 (4). 2009.
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36Political Action and Speech in the 2000 Presidential ElectionConstellations 8 (3): 313-328. 2001.
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20The self‐institution of society: A democratic interrogation with no endConstellations 24 (3): 387-388. 2017.
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39Tlön as Political Form: Democracy and Totalitarianism in Borges and LefortConstellations 19 (3): 463-479. 2012.
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21Deliberative Scenes and Democratic Politics in the Lewinsky CaseConstellations 6 (2): 167-176. 1999.
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13Critical theory and democracy: civil society, dictatorship, and constitutionalism in Andrew Arato's democratic theory (edited book)Routledge. 2012.This book focuses on Andrew Arato’s democratic theory and its relevance to contemporary issues such as processes of democratization, civil society, constitution-making, and the modern Executive. Andrew Arato is -both globally and disciplinarily- a prominent thinker in the fields of democratic theory, constitutional law, and comparative politics, influencing several generations of scholars. This is the first volume to systematically address his democratic theory. Including contributions from lead…Read more
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