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.