Some of questions of democracy through the Badiouian lenses (Badiou's critique of representation)

The author starts with the relationship between Badiou's otherwise severe c ritique of democracy and Lefort's theory of democracy. Though accused of no t being democratic, Badiou's theory in a certain sense presupposes democrac y and even deepens it, yet not the democracy which rules nowadays, the demo cracy of consensus, but democracy which is not based on exclusion. Through the comparison of Badiou's and Deleuze's critique of representation the aut hor shows some consequences of Badiou's starting-point that "people think" for the conceptualisation of the community, equality and universality.