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dc.contributor.authorGüçler, Arda
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-01T13:36:23Z
dc.date.available2021-02-01T13:36:23Z
dc.date.issued2020-02-01
dc.identifier.issn0191-4537en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10679/7253
dc.identifier.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0191453719839452
dc.description.abstractWhat 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.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSageen_US
dc.relation.ispartofPhilosophy and Social Criticism
dc.rightsrestrictedAccess
dc.titleWhy so timely? Politics of representation and its entanglement in presentismen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.peerreviewedyesen_US
dc.publicationstatusPublisheden_US
dc.contributor.departmentÖzyeğin University
dc.contributor.authorID(ORCID 0000-0002-0343-5099 & YÖK ID 286310) Güçler, Arda
dc.contributor.ozuauthorGüçler, Arda
dc.identifier.volume46en_US
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.startpage224en_US
dc.identifier.endpage246en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000508466600010
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0191453719839452en_US
dc.subject.keywordsDemocratic theoryen_US
dc.subject.keywordsJacques Derridaen_US
dc.subject.keywordsNadia Urbinatien_US
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical representationen_US
dc.subject.keywordsUntimelinessen_US
dc.identifier.scopusSCOPUS:2-s2.0-85063988288
dc.contributor.authorMale1
dc.relation.publicationcategoryArticle - International Refereed Journal - Institutional Academic Staff


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