Marcel Gauchet and the Crisis of Democratic Politics presents, for the first time in the English language, Marcel Gauchet's interpretation of the challenges faced by contemporary western societies as a result of the crisis of liberal democratic politics and the growing influence of populism.

Preface: Why Read Marcel Gauchet? Introduction: Marcel Gauchet: His Work in Context Part I: Marcel Gauchet and the Contemporary Crisis of Democratic Politics 1. Democracy from One Crisis to Another 2. Populism as Symptom Part II: Insights into Marcel Gauchet's Exploration of Political Modernity 3. Marcel Gauchet and the Eclipse of the Political 4. The Political Forms of Modernity: The Gauchet-Badiou Debate over Democracy and Communism 5. Marcel Gauchet's Political Anthropology: Originary Social Division and the 'Processual' Autonomy of a Community Part III: Reflections on Marcel Gauchet's Analysis of Contemporary Democratic Culture 6. The Political History of Individualism 7. Human Rights, Legal Democracy, and Populism 8. Juridification: Liberal Legalism and the Depoliticisation of Government 9. Thinking the Populist Challenge with and Against Marcel Gauchet Part IV: Applying Gauchet's Analysis of Liberal Democracies: Beyond the Crisis? 10. The New World of Neo-Liberal Democracy