The book offers a counter-model to the classical liberal theories of civil disobedience as
developed by authors such as John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin. Based on a strict opposition
between liberalism and democracy it proposes a new perspective for the understanding of
political disobedience. As an alternative to civil disobedience the author proposes the idea of
civic disobedience. With reference to authors such as Chantal Mouffe Jacques Rancière and
Stanley Fish and in opposition to liberal concepts of democracy the outlines of a new novel
theory of democracy become visible.
