On the critical potential of Rosanvallon’s wide definition of democracy
(2019) Pierre Rosanvallon’s Political Thought. Interdisciplinary Approaches — ISBN: [978-3-8376-4652-8], published
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Weymans, Wim 
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- In well over twenty books and many essays and journal-articles published over the past 35 years, Pierre Rosanvallon has analyzed many aspects of democracy’s past and present. In what follows I argue that the originality of Rosanvallon’s contribution to political theory not only lies in the wide scope of his definition of democracy but also in its critical nature. In what follows, I will show how this broad definition of democracy allows him to write its history while also offering a critical perspective that allows us to differentiate between proper and improper views of democracy and give a diagnosis and remedies for its current crisis. At the end of this essay, I will argue that the scope of his critical definition may perhaps be, paradoxically, at once too wide and not wide enough.
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Weymans, W. (2019). On the critical potential of Rosanvallon’s wide definition of democracy. In Oliver Flügel-Martinsen, Franziska Martinsen, Stephen W. Sawyer et Daniel Schulz (ed.), Pierre Rosanvallon’s Political Thought. Interdisciplinary Approaches. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839446522-007