Rhetoric and Truth: Tacitus's Percennius and Democratic Historiography

Abstract

Democracy is not the parliamentary system or the legitimate state. it is not a state of the social either, the reign of individualism or the masses . . . Democracy is the name of a singular interruption of this order of the distribution of bodies in a community that i have suggested should be conceptualised as police. it is the name of that which interrupts the smooth functioning of this order through a singular process of subjectivization. Jacques Rancière, Disagreement