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POLITICAL LIMIT OF NEOLIBERAL DEMOCRACY: THE STRATEGY OF INEQUALITY
POLITICAL LIMIT OF NEOLIBERAL DEMOCRACY: THE STRATEGY OF INEQUALITY

Author(s): Irina Zhurbina
Subject(s): Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk i Fundacja Filozofia na Rzecz Dialogu
Keywords: neoliberalism; post-politics; inequality; militant; activist; “democracy in daily life”; politics of activism

Summary/Abstract: The paper studies political consequences of the establishment of neoliberal democracy, which means the onset of a post-political state of the world. It is demonstrated that at the “end of politics,” the democratic principle of equal rights turns into its opposite— a radical inequality between transnational elites, personifying the power of “pure” capital, and the local population, representing the idea of “pure” life. Neoliberal democracy is studied as a limit concept, which shows the exhaustion of the democratic principle of equality. The paper shows that the return to democracy as the principle of equality becomes the driving ambition of modern politics of activism as a subjective process, unfolding in places where a situation of radical inequality arises.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 79-94
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English
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