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This book examines the question of democracy in post-revolutionary Mexican society. Each chapter recuperates an event or particular historical sequence that sheds light on the relation between culture and sovereign exceptionality. Each moment or sequence stages a relation to language. In these speech scenes there is a disagreement between social actors (for example, disputes between peasants and intellectuals over words such as democracy, equality, freedom, proletariat, worker, revolution etc.). Democracy in this book is not just a type of Constitution or a form of society that politics affirms on a daily basis. It is the assumption and installation of egalitarian language. Democracy is therefore the momentary interruption or suspension of the police order.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Titlepage
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Exceptionality, Autoimmunity, and the Question of Democracy: Summer 2005
- 2 Politics, Equality, and Freedom in Revolution: December 1914
- 3 The Manufactured Subject: Melodramatic Consciousness and the Immunization of the Political, July–August 1937
- 4 Humanism Begets Good Order: Alfonso Reyes and Police Thought, September–December 1939
- 5 “Under the Paving Stones, the Beach!”: Chance, Passive Decision, Democracy, July–November 1968
- 6 Absolute Hostility and Ubiquitous Enmity: “The Party of the Poor” and the Militarization of the Political, 1967–95
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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