Why so timely? Politics of representation and its entanglement in presentism
dc.contributor.author | Güçler, Arda | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-01T13:36:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-02-01T13:36:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-02-01 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0191-4537 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10679/7253 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0191453719839452 | |
dc.description.abstract | What gives representation its democratic essence? The recent democratic theory literature, particularly spearheaded by Nadia Urbinati, defends representative mediation as a facilitator of ongoing democratic contestation and revision. While I agree with this agonistic defence, I take issue with how Urbinati construes it. For her, representative contestation works in the teleological sense of testing opinions over time and sublimating them into ideological forms as a safeguard against the threat of immediacy (i.e. arbitrariness and authenticity). This article locates the traces of such presentism within Urbinati's own teleological framework, which I see as compromising her commitment to the agonistic vein in representative politics. When our relationship to the future is imagined from such a teleological angle, I argue, the scope of our representative options becomes significantly narrowed down and the possibility of beginning anew looks quite slim. I develop this critique by tapping into Jacques Derrida's affirmation of untimeliness. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Sage | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Philosophy and Social Criticism | |
dc.rights | restrictedAccess | |
dc.title | Why so timely? Politics of representation and its entanglement in presentism | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.peerreviewed | yes | en_US |
dc.publicationstatus | Published | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Özyeğin University | |
dc.contributor.authorID | (ORCID 0000-0002-0343-5099 & YÖK ID 286310) Güçler, Arda | |
dc.contributor.ozuauthor | Güçler, Arda | |
dc.identifier.volume | 46 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | en_US |
dc.identifier.startpage | 224 | en_US |
dc.identifier.endpage | 246 | en_US |
dc.identifier.wos | WOS:000508466600010 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0191453719839452 | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Democratic theory | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Jacques Derrida | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Nadia Urbinati | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Political representation | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Untimeliness | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | SCOPUS:2-s2.0-85063988288 | |
dc.contributor.authorMale | 1 | |
dc.relation.publicationcategory | Article - International Refereed Journal - Institutional Academic Staff |
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