Talk

As part of the Serious Times Lecture Series, MA Critical Theory and the Arts and BFA Visual & Critical Studies presents a talk by Andreas Kalyvas, associate professor in the department of politics at The New School for Social Research. RSVP to MA Critical Theory and the Arts at theoryart@sva.edu.

Kalyvas's lecture will put forward the hypothesis of democracy as the politics of the poor in an attempt to radically rethink the democratic experience beyond its liberal-oligarchic appropriations. The goal is to capture democracy's political singularity and defining traits. As political form, democracy is the constituted order of the emancipated poor. As political practice, democracy is the struggle of the poor to constitute their common life as a free and equal, that is, as autonomous life. 

Kalyvas is an editor of Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory and an associate professor in the Department of Politics at The New School for Social Research. Professor Kalyvas's work focuses on democratic theory and the history of political thought from ancient Greek and Roman to modern and contemporary continental political theory.