Description: A vehement defense of the principle of democracy against neoconservative repression.
Review Quotes: "This tastily sardonic essay is partly a scholarly sprint through the history of political philosophy, and partly a very enjoyable stream of insults directed at rival penseurs." --Guardian
"A piercing essay on the definitions and redefinitions of the term 'democracy.'" --Times Higher Education Supplement "In our time of the disorientation of the left, Rancière's writings offer one the few consistent conceptualizations of how are to continue to resist." --Slavoj iek