WHAT IS A PEOPLE?

These outspoken intellectuals seek 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 a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic analysis of popular and its transformation of democracy, beliefs, s ongs, and even soups into phenomena with outsized importance. Judith Butler calls out those who use freedom of assembly to create an exclusio...[Read more]