In recent years, as French philosopher Jacques Rancière highlights, democracy has come to be identified with democratic society, from a range of political perspectives, and has been heavily critiqued in virtue of the latter’s “unlimited individualism” - an individualism, which is taken to undermine both society and government through its excessive, escalating demands and its insouciance to the public good. At the same time, efforts on the “left” to restore radicality to democracy as a political form remain significantly contested. Critical questions persist as to whether seminal conceptions of a contemporary democratic politics, such as those of Claude Lefort and Ernesto Laclau/Chantal Mouffe, achieve a sufficiently critical distance from prevailing liberalisms, or can effectively resist the growing economic determination of the sphere of politics. In this context, Rancière has offered a novel analysis, which resists reducing democracy either to a form of social life or to a political form as such. Instead, returning to Plato and Aristotle, he seeks to discover in democracy the gesture of the “beginning of politics”, which leads to a permanent practice of contestation of the political by what he terms the “part who have no part” within society.