Aristotle's Ontology of Anarchy

Catherine Sherman: I was hoping that you could sort of give us a general arc of the evolution of the term anarchy, particularly with Aristotle's politics and the theorization of the archae. And then of course, later Prudhong's appropriation of that term and his declaration of him being an anarchist was which not only involves an appropriation, but a kind of a conceptual turn within that term. CATHERINE Rancier: Well, let me jump to Honsie who says somewhere that for Aristotle, democracy is an arcade, an arcade. How is it possible? How can Aristotle say both? Arcade is the first, the principle, the grounding, et cetera. And

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