Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an Age of Diversity (The Seeley Lectures)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Foreword......Page 11
Introduction......Page 15
The society of distrust......Page 17
The three dimensions of counter-democracy......Page 26
The myth of the passive citizen......Page 32
Depoliticization or the unpolitical?......Page 36
Reinterpreting the history of democracy......Page 38
Part 1 Overseeing democracy......Page 43
Vigilance......Page 47
Denunciation......Page 55
Evaluation......Page 66
2 The overseers......Page 71
The vigilant citizen......Page 72
The new activism......Page 75
The Internet as a political form......Page 80
Functional surveillance by authorities......Page 85
Internal audit and evaluation bureaus......Page 87
Three stages......Page 90
Democratic dualism: a long history......Page 97
The impossibility of institutionalization......Page 107
The pen and the podium......Page 118
Three types of legitimacy......Page 126
New routes to legitimacy......Page 129
Part 2 The sovereignty of prevention......Page 135
Medieval theories of resistance and consent......Page 139
The Reformation......Page 141
The Enlightenment, the negative power, and the tribunes of the people......Page 147
The French revolutionary experience......Page 151
Fichte and the idea of a modern ephorate......Page 156
A significant oversight......Page 161
6 Self-critical democracies......Page 164
The class struggle as negative politics......Page 165
The metamorphoses of the opposition......Page 170
The rebel, the resister, and the dissident......Page 174
The decline of the critical dimension in democracies......Page 183
The age of “deselection”......Page 187
Prevention and veto......Page 193
Weak democracy......Page 200
Part 3 The people as judge......Page 205
The Greek example......Page 209
English impeachment......Page 216
The recall procedure in the United States......Page 221
The democratic jury......Page 228
The production of competing norms......Page 234
Shadow legislators......Page 238
The judicialization of politics......Page 241
The imperative of justification......Page 244
An obligatory decision......Page 246
The active spectator......Page 248
Theatricality......Page 250
Space for the exemplary......Page 253
Voting and judging......Page 256
Part 4 Unpolitical democracy......Page 263
The age of the unpolitical......Page 267
The horizon of transparency......Page 271
Two forms of depoliticization......Page 273
A pathology of electoral-representative democracy......Page 279
Populism and counter-democracy......Page 281
A word returns......Page 288
The economic function of surveillance......Page 290
The market, or the triumph of the veto......Page 297
“Unpolitical” economy......Page 299
14 Conclusion: the modern mixed regime......Page 304
New paths of electoral-representative democracy......Page 305
Consolidating counter-democracy......Page 313
Repoliticizing democracy......Page 320
The mixed modern regime......Page 327
The scholar and the citizen......Page 330
Index......Page 333