is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. He is the author of Hermeneutic Paradigms (2004, in Bulgarian) and The Limits of the Subject (2007, in Bulgarian). He is editor of Critique & Humanism.
Boyan Znepolski remains far from convinced by recent attempts by contemporary philosophers to get to grips with the relation between democracy as a political regime and “the people”. He discerns a deficit of creativity in the thought of Zizek, Badiou and Laclau.
The pragmatist renunciation of sociology’s critical exclusivity is reversed in the recent thought of Luc Boltanski, as capitalist “displacements” to the world of work together with new and complex forms of domination demand the return to a critical methodology. Unlike others of his generation, however, Boltanski’s arguments for change do not extend to democracy itself, writes Boyan Znepolski.
