Centre for the Study of Democracy September 2002 Who does the governing in today’s world? Through which institutions do they govern, in the sense that their decisions structure and confine the fields of judgement and action of actors within global civil society,...
Read MoreQuentin Skinner talks to John Keane about Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the neo-Roman theory of liberty. This is an edited extract from a long interview conducted with him in May 2000 by John Keane and Milton Tosto. This text was published...
Read MoreTranslated by Teresa Chataway (Polity Press, 2000). (This book review first appeared in CSD Bulletin Volume 9, Number 1, Winter 2001-2002_ PDF Version) Sadly, these essays by the 90-year-old mano maestra of Italian political philosophy may prove to be among his last. Sadder...
Read MoreIn David Marquand and Ronald L. Nettler (eds) Religion and Democracy, pp. 5–19. 2000, Oxford: Blackwell Publisher. Series: Political Quarterly Special Issues. 100 years ago, secular liberals thought religion would gradually recede from the public sphere and become an exclusively private...
Read MoreAn interview with John Keane, from CSD Bulletin Volume 7 No. 1, Winter 1999-2000 The following interview, originally conducted for the CSD Bulletin Volume 7 No. 1, Winter 1999-2000 , provides an introduction to John Keane's life and writings.) By Patrick Burke...
Read MoreAn interview with the Czech President's latest biographer (An interview with John Keane conducted by Jan Culik, published on the Central Europe Review, the Vol 1, No 15, 4 October 1999) Central Europe Review : As a well-established political thinker in Britain and...
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