The purpose of this book is to introduce the ideas and work of Claude Lefort (1924-2010), one of the major French philosophers of the end of the twentieth century. His thinking on democracy, to which the experience of totalitarianism, particularly in its Stalinist form, contributed, was particularly innovative.
Nicolas Poirier, is a teacher and philosophy researcher attached to the Sophiapol laboratory at the Université Paris-Nanterre. He is the author of Canetti. Les métamorphoses contre la puissance (Canetti. Metamorphoses against power), (Michalon, 2017) and Cornelius Castoriadis. Du chaos naît la création (Cornelius Castoriadis. Out of chaos comes creation), (Le bord de l’eau, 2019).