DEMOCRACY AND TOTALITARIANISM IN THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF CLAUDE LEFORT (Demokracja i totalitaryzm w filozofii politycznej Claude'a Leforta)

• Authors: Kowalska Malgorzata
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The intention of Claude Lefort is not, according to the authoress, to describe concrete totalitarian systems, such as Nazism or Communism, but to make the underlying assumptions and imageries explicit. The basic phantasm of totalitarianism is supposed to be the ability to incarnate the undetermined people, which is so essential to democracy, in a certain community, and amalgamating this community with its authorities that would incarnate both law and knowledge. This logic of incarnation would be equivalent not only to the logic of unity, but also to the logic of certainty, being the product of the need to find certain, univocal answers to questions that remain forever open in democracy.

Keywords

EN

DEMOCRACY; LEFORT CLAUDET; TOTALITARIAN SYSTEMS

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Warsaw University, Institute of Philosophy, Institute of Polish Literature and Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 4(25)
• Pages: 529-544
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kowalska Malgorzata

• Malgorzata Kowalska, address not given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA077023