Popular sovereignty revisited: self-government as way of life
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2318-9800.v22i3p57-68Keywords:
popular sovereignty, autonomy, public sphere, recognition, radical democracy, political cultureAbstract
Rousseau’s concept of popular sovereignty is linked to a radical idea of freedom as autonomy: is free who can govern himself, not submitting to the will of another. This article investigates the social roots of autonomy not only as a critical criterion of political legitimacy, but in order to understand how it fits into action contexts of society’s everyday life. Current forms of social domination and new grammars of emancipatory struggles (radical feminism or anti-racism) show that autonomy must also find effectivity in social dimensions that are complementary to the public political sphere.
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