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NO/US: The Nietzschean Democracy of Jean-Luc Nancy
- Diacritics
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 43, Number 4, 2015
- pp. 66-87
- 10.1353/dia.2015.0026
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How to break up the equivalence of objects? How to raise the question of a politics able to oppose the equivalence of the peculiarities produced by capitalism? Against such economy, that this essay calls an archi-economy, Jean-Luc Nancy’s radical existential perspective calls for a renewed concept of democracy: a “Nietzschean democracy” that would enable us, again, to say “we.” Far from being an outright oxymoron, a Nietzschean democracy outlines a politics that would prevent the “us” from getting rid of the surplus, the gap, the outside without which there would be no being-in-common, but a claustrophobic “immanentism.” The “us” to come should be written