Democracy and Political Theory

Claude Lefort was a French philosopher and activist. He was politically active by 1942 under the influence of his tutor, the phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty. By 1943 he was organising a faction of the Trotskyist Parti Communiste Internationaliste at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. David Macey was an English translator and intellectual historian of the French left. He translated around sixty books from French to English, and wrote biographical studies of Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon.

• 1. On Modern Democracy The Question of DemocracyHuman Rights and the Welfare StateHannah Arendt and the Question of the Political2. On Revolution.The Revolutionary TerrorInterpreting Revolution with the French RevolutionEdgar Quinet: The Revolution that FailedThe Revolution as Principle and as IndividualRereading The Communist Manifesto3. On freedomReversibility: Political Freedom and the Freedom of the IndividualFrom Equality to Freedom: Fragments of an Interpretation of Democracy in America4. On the Irreducible Element.The Permanence of the Theologico-political?The death of immortality?