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Capitalismo, democrazia e pluralizzazione del moderno, a partire da Sur la démocratie
Girardi, Edoardo
2026
Abstract
This article offers a reinterpretation Claude Lefort and Marcel Gauchet’s Sur la démocratie: le politique et l’institution du social as a decisive moment in the reformulation of critical thought dring the crisis of Marxism. It argues that the authors articulate a dissociation between democracy and capitalis m that frees the former from its reduction to a mere superstructure, while proposing a new critique of capitalist society. In fact, their relation is understood as an interplay of complicity and conflict: through the notion of the political institution of the social and a new theory of democracy they show that the democratic regime creates the conditions of possibility for capitalism while sim- ultaneously preventing its totalizing fulfillment. On this basis, Sur la démocratie contributes to a plu- ralization o f modernity. Finally, this perspective is put into dialogue with Cornelius Castoriadis, whose interpretation radicalizes this tension into an antinomy between instituting principles
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Edoardo Girardi, "Capitalismo, democrazia e pluralizzazione del moderno, a partire da Sur la démocratie" in: "Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics (2026) XXVIII/1", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2026
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it
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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