Abstract
The article compares Jacques Rancière’s concept of postdemocracy with Hannah Arendt’s critique of majoritarian representative parliamentary democracy. The article shows that both reject the idea of democracy as consensus-based popular sovereignty that neglects the value of political conflict and tends toward a technocratic understanding of politics. With Arendt and beyond Rancière, the author develops a concept of democracy in which sharing and dividing power is a constitutive element of popular rule. As a corollary, postdemocracy can be defined as any understanding of democracy that denies the paradoxical and self-limiting effects of shared and divided power, and instead promotes a model of unlimited popular sovereignty.
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