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La représentation en question

2020, Mélanges en l'honneur du Professeur Jean-Marc Trigeaud - Les personnes et les choses du Droit Civil à la Philosophie du Droit et de l'Etat

Abstract

Through an archaeology going back to the different sources, notably Greek, of representation, of mimesis, it appears that its modern apprehension is insufficient. The French term representation only imperfectly embraces the polysemy that its political meaning assumes. Representation, through the embodiment of the multitude that it constitutes as a people, suggests that the voter is simultaneously the author of the political action, even though this is only an illusion. The study proposes to dialectically overcome the contradiction inherent in the notion of representative democracy, which is in itself an oxymoron.