The second section of the book discusses the essence of democracy from the point of view of this new philosophy of social practices. Here the concept democracy is mirrored against Michel Foucault’s concept of power. It is stressed that we should let go of the mental image of these concepts as representing an underlying thingly reality, and instead understand that both are merely names that we give to certain perceptions on life, perceptions that in all reality mirror phenomena in infinite variances, and that these perceptions, power and democracy, in fact, are but various aspects, manifestations of the same phenomena, the one as complex as the other. – As in my earlier book, Expressions and Interpretations, here also the social development of Russia serves as point of reference, and this is also why the reader will understand why Russia’s president Putin is a man with good democratic credentials.