Democratic Form

Lecture Six: Democratic Form

This lecture draws together the findings of the first five lectures to paint a different picture from the rationalist, transcendentalist, idealist, and universalist depiction of “Plato’s Theory of Forms” that dominates the history of political thought. Analyzing the co-implications of eidos, usually translated as “Form,” with eidos as a “look” or “shape” grasped by the senses, the lecture develops an account of democratic form that inhabits the spaces of opinion, appearance, and practice explored in the preceding lectures.