Democratic society in the anti-totalitarian liberalism of Claude Lefort

Abstract

What can we learn from Claude Lefort's theory of democracy that would help us constructively rethink the sometimes ambiguous relationship between liberalism and democracy? In this contribution, I tried to enrich the debate on their relationship by insights from the conception of democratic society by Claude Lefort, based on which this can be understood as a relation of reversibility.

Keywords

• Democratic society
• anti-totalitarian liberalism
• Claude Lefort