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Although the modern age is often described as the age of democratic revolutions, the subject of popular founding has not captured the imagination of contemporary political thought. Most of the time, democratic theory and political science treat as the object of their inquiry normal politics, institutionalized power, and consolidated democracies. This study shows why it is important for democratic theory to rethink the question of democracy's beginnings. Is there a founding unique to democracies? Can a democracy be democratically established? What are the implications of expanding democratic politics in light of the question of whether and how to address democracy's beginnings? Kalyvas addresses these questions and scrutinizes the possibility of democratic beginnings in terms of the category of the extraordinary, as he reconstructs it from the writings of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt and their views on the creation of new political, symbolic, and constitutional orders.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Weber, Max --- Arendt, Hannah --- Schmitt, Carl --- Democracy --- Political science --- Political philosophy --- Self-government --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Philosophy --- Schmitt, Carl, --- Weber, Max, --- ウェーバー, マックス --- Schmitt-Dorotić, Carl, --- Dorotić, Carl Schmitt-, --- Shumitto, Kāru, --- Shmitt, Karl, --- שמיט, קרל, --- Šmit, Karl, --- Blücher, Hannah Arendt, --- Bluecher, Hannah Arendt, --- Ārento, Hanna, --- Arendt, H. --- Arendt, Khanna, --- ארנדט, חנה --- アーレント, ハンナ, --- Political and social views. --- Pak Organization of Workers in Educational Research. --- POWER --- Democracy. --- Philosophy. --- Arendt, Hannah, --- Power (Social sciences) --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Ma-kʻo-ssu Wei-po, --- Makesi Weibo, --- Pebŏ, --- Pebŏ, Maksŭ, --- Vēbā, Makkusu, --- Veber, Maks, --- Vemper, Max, --- Webŏ, Maksŭ, --- Wei-po, Ma-kʻo-ssu, --- Weibo, --- Weibo, Makesi, --- ובר, מאקס, --- ובר, מאכס --- ובר, מקס --- 韦伯, --- Social Sciences --- Political Science