This essay reviews Steffen Herrmann and Matthias Flatscher's edited volume Institutionen des Politischen: Perspektiven der radikalen Demokratietheorie (2020) with respect to the history of the distinction of politics and the political as well as to democratic forms of life that require resistance against anti-democratic misuse of political institutions. Finally, the article discusses how identification with such forms of life is possible so that any identitarian occupation of the question of who we are is defied.

Burkhard Liebsch: "Zur Instabilität des Politischen: zwischen Anarchie und demokratischem Versprechen. Rezension zum Sammelband Institutionen des Politischen (2020) von Steffen Herrmann und Matthias Flatscher," in: Le foucaldien, 7/1 (2021), DOI: 10.16995/lefou.99