The specificity of modern democratic pluralism is lost when it is
envisaged merely as the empirical fact of a multiplicity of moral
conceptions of the good. It needs to be understood as the expression of
a symbolic mutation in the ordering of social relations: the democratic
revolution envisaged in Gaude Leforf s terms as "the dissolution of the
markers of certainty7
. In a modern democratic society there can be no
longer a substantive unity and division must be recognized as
constitutive. It is 'a society in which Power, Law and Knowledge are
exposed to a radical indeterminacy, a society that has become the
theatre of an uncontrollable adventure/
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