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Representation Reloaded: Why Socrates Should Die Again

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Are we to get rid with representation after all? Since World War II, political philosophy seems to have devoted itself to either the intellectual sabotage of representation, or its defence against all evidence. Nobody seems to have thought that the problem with political representation might be the fact that the way it was thought was by no means correct. Considered as a fundamental principle of Western democracies, it might be at the very level of what a principle implies that representation must be reloaded. For instance, by admitting that as a principle representation is not something that precedes what for which it provides ground (the government, the State, etc.)—but something that follows, that constitutes the final product of representation itself.

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de Sutter, L. Representation Reloaded: Why Socrates Should Die Again. Found Sci 18, 327–329 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-011-9269-0

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