Democracy in the Political Present - Isabell Lorey Kartoniert (TB)

Presentist democracy is without a people and without nation. Rather than regimes of borders and migration its borders are sexism and racism homo- and transphobia colonialism and extractivism.'In the midst of the crises and threats to liberal democracy Isabell Lorey develops a democracy in the present tense one which breaks open political certainties and linear concepts of progress and growth. Her queer feminist political theory formulates a fundamental critique of masculinist concepts of the people representation institutions and the multitude. In doing so she unfolds an original conce pt of a presentist democracy based on care and interrelatedness on the irreducibility of responsibilitiesone which cannot be conceived of without social movements' past struggles and current practices.