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Dublin - Event Notice Thursday January 01 1970 GradCam present Peter Hallward: 'The Will of the People and the Struggle for Democracy'![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thursday February 17th 2011, 6 - 8pm, Wood Quay Venue, Civic Offices, Dublin This is a free public seminar, however, places are limited, and booking is strongly recommended. Please send an email to praxis@gradcam.ie to reserve your place. ![]() GradCAM present Peter Hallward: 'The Will of the People and the Struggle for Democracy', Feb 17th, Dublin In this talk Peter Hallward will try to clarify and defend the once-familiar notion of a democratic political will, understood as a rational practice of inclusive and egalitarian self-determination. As conceived by thinkers ranging from Rousseau to Fanon, exercise of an autonomous 'will of the people' involves a process of collective self-emancipation. It requires a capacity for association, deliberation, and prescription, as well as the power to implement political decisions in the face of whatever resistance they encounter. In the past, it was the militant assertion of such a popular will, for instance in the French, Haitian and Russian revolutions, that posed the most far-reaching challenges to the existing order of things; unsurprisingly, today's reactionary political establishment (along with a good deal of contemporary philosophy and critical theory) is largely organised around its exclusion or disruption. But the struggle continues! |