Paula Biglieri - Seven Essays on Populism

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2 Series Title Series Title Critical South The publication of this series is supported by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Series editors: Natalia Brizuela and Leticia Sabsay Leonor Arfuch, Memory and Autobiography Paula Biglieri and Luciana Cadahia, Seven Essays on Populism Aimé Césaire, Resolutely Black Bolívar Echeverría, Modernity and “Whiteness” Celso Furtado, The Myth of Economic Development Eduardo Grüner, The Haitian Revolution Karima Lazali, Colonia Trauma María Pia López, Not One Less Pablo Oyarzun, Doing Justice Néstor Perlongher, Plebeian Prose Nelly Richard, Eruptions of Memory Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Ch’ixinakax Utxiwa Tendayi Sithole, The Black Register

3 Title Page Seven Essays on Populism For a Renewed Theoretical Perspective Paula Biglieri and Luciana Cadahia Translated by George Ciccariello-Maher polity

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6 Foreword – Wendy Brown Notes

7 Introduction Notes

8 Essay 1 The Secret of PopulismThe returns of populism Modernization, class struggle, and the constitutive dimension of the political Populism as ontology of the political Notes

9 Essay 2 Neither Left nor Right: Populism without ApologyPopulism, left and right? Is all populism right-wing? Just populism Populism without apology Notes

10 Essay 3 Against Neoliberal Fascism: From Sacrificial Identity to Egalitarian SingularityIs populism a form of neoliberalism? The prejudices of the liberal, anti-communist left Autonomism: the opium of the people Populism as transitional object? Populism: antithesis of neoliberalism Notes

11 Essay 4 Profaning the Public: The Plebeian Dimension of Republican PopulismIs populism anti-institutionalist? Ruptural institutionality Plebeian republicanism Toward a republican populism? Notes

12 Essay 5 Toward an Internationalist PopulismThe beautiful souls of pure causes The people and its leader Toward an internationalist populism Notes

13 Essay 6 The Absent Cause of Populist MilitancyPost-foundationalism and the absence of guarantees Neither the cemetery nor the madhouse The three militant questions Notes

14 Essay 7 We Populists are FeministsLet’s imagine the future Feminism without identitarian closure Populist feminism (or the antagonism of care) Feminist populism (or the homeland is the other) Notes

15 Bibliography

16 Index

17 End User License Agreement

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The publication of this series is supported by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Series editors: Natalia Brizuela and Leticia Sabsay

Leonor Arfuch, Memory and Autobiography

Paula Biglieri and Luciana Cadahia, Seven Essays on Populism

Aimé Césaire, Resolutely Black

Bolívar Echeverría, Modernity and “Whiteness”

Celso Furtado, The Myth of Economic Development

Eduardo Grüner, The Haitian Revolution

Karima Lazali, Colonia Trauma

María Pia López, Not One Less

Pablo Oyarzun, Doing Justice

Néstor Perlongher, Plebeian Prose

Nelly Richard, Eruptions of Memory

Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Ch’ixinakax Utxiwa

Tendayi Sithole, The Black Register

Paula Biglieri and Luciana Cadahia

Translated by George Ciccariello-Maher

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Copyright © Paula Biglieri and Luciana Cadahia, 2021

This English edition © 2021 by Polity Press

Excerpt from the article “The Populist Challenge to Liberal Democracy” by William Galston, Journal of Democracy 29:2 (2018), 5–19. © 2018 National Endowment for Democracy and the Johns Hopkins University Press. Reprinted with permission of Johns Hopkins University Press.

Excerpt from the article “How populist uprisings could bring down liberal democracy” by Yascha Mounk, The Guardian , March 2018 © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2020. Reprinted with permission of The Guardian .

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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4220-8 – hardback

ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4221-5 – paperback

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Biglieri, Paula, author. | Cadahia, Luciana, 1982- author.