++ postponed to 16/01/2024 ++ Donatella di Cesare: Democracy and Anarchy. At the source of their repressed connection
07. Nov
Lecture by Donatella di Cesare
++ postponed ++ Tuesday, 7. Nov 2023
There are at least two ways of thinking about democracy today: a moderate-liberal one that considers it as a system of rules and procedures to be constantly improved, and a radical one that seeks to recover its conflictual potential. Grasped at its root, democracy reveals its connection to anarchy. Since its emergence, democracy has put into question both the arché, a power that claims to be original, and the télos, the goal (as Reiner Schürmann had already suspected). What is key is the concept of kratos, capacity, the power of the people, which is necessarily an-archic.
Donatella di Cesare is professor of theoretical philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome. Recent publications include Conspiracy and Power (2023), The Time of Revolt (2021), The Political Vocation of Philosophy (2021) and Resident Foreigners: A Philosophy of Migration (2020). In Winter 2023/24, di Cesare will be a visiting professor at Leuphana University Lüneburg.
Lecture language: German
Contakt: Nicolas Schneider (nicolas.schneider@leuphana.de)