The Metaphysical Origin of the Structural Defects of Western Democracy:Agamben on the Arrogation of Government
It is the structural defect of western modern democracy that government overtakes people's sovereignty and"the representative of the people"overtakes the people,Agamben deeply explore its origin from the perspective of metaphysics.First of all,Agamben points out that the fiction of the concept of"the people"in Western democracy presupposes the exclusion of minority individu-als.Secondly,Agamben argues that modern Western democracy has reproduced the structure of"di-vine economy"in western metaphysics,this leads to the symbolic popular sovereignty being repre-sented and arrogated by the bourgeois government.Finally,Agamben points to the fact that the sov-ereignty of Western democracy has been shaped by the free market order and serve the special inter-ests of the bourgeoisie.Agamben's critique developed Marx's and Engels's thesis on the class na-ture of the state and highlighted the tension between government and democracy.Its defect is that it attributes the defects of Western democracy entirely on the genealogy and structure of metaphysics,generalizing the concept of government,and it lacks a critical perspective of capital,which makes it difficult to effectively intervene in the practice of democracy and government,and the CPC has pro-vided useful inspiration for it.
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