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What Is a People?

By Alain Badiou, Jody Gladding (Translator), Judith Butler, Georges Didi-Huberman, Sadri Khiari, Jacques Rancière, Pierre Bourdieu, Bruno Bosteels (Introduction), Kevin Olson (Afterword)
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By Alain Badiou, Jody Gladding (Translator), Judith Butler, Georges Didi-Huberman, Sadri Khiari, Jacques Rancière, Pierre Bourdieu, Bruno Bosteels (Introduction), Kevin Olson (Afterword)
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What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic analysis of "popular" and its transformation of democracy, beliefs, songs, and even soups into phenomena with outsized importance. Judith Butler calls out those who use fre...

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