Populism and the People in Contemporary Critical Thought: Politics, Philosophy, and Aesthetics

Introduction: The People and Populism in Contemporary Critical
Thought David Payne, Alexander Stagnell, and Gustav Strandberg
Part I Political Reflections on the People
1 The People: Proper, Common, Improper. An Interview with
Jacques Rancière Jacques Rancière, David Payne, Alexander Stagnell, and
Gustav Strandberg
2 Demophobia in Politics: Remarks on Liberal Anti-populism and the
Possibility of a Radical Democratic Populism Oliver Marchart
3 Logics of Democracy in the Work of Ernesto Laclau and Jacques
Rancière Mark Devenney and Clare Woodford
4 Disavowals of Populism: The Political Displacement of
Homogeneity Karl Ekeman
Part II Toward an Affectology of Populism
5 The Politics of Resentment and Its Pitfalls Samo Tomšič
6 "That's Disgusting!": The Shifting Politics of Affect in Right-wing
Populist Mobilization Maria Brock and Jenny Gunnarsson Payne
7 The People and the Image of the Leader: Reflections on Mass
Psychology Chiara Bottici
Part III The Aesthetics of the People
8. Picturing the People: The Dilemmas of Democratic
Representation Paula Diehl
9 Aesthetic Forms of the Political: Populist Ornaments, Cultures of
Rejection, Democratic Assemblies Stefan Jonsson
10 The Undivided People: On the Hypothesis of Radical Democracy in
Peter Weiss' The Aesthetics of Resistance Kim West
Part IV The People beyond the Political
11 Fragmentation of the Idea of the People: The Afro-Brazilian
Event Muniz Sodré
12 A Politics of the People and a Politics of the Popular: From the Russian
Revolution to Gramsci's Ashes Tora Lane
13 Facing People Ramona Rat
Epilogue
14 On "People": Brief Theoretical Notes Michael Marder
List of Contributors