This reply was published in the March 2010 issue of The Monthly John Keane's comments are rich in a variety of points, all meritingresponse, but I shall focus on their main thrust only in the short space offered me here. I am...
Read MoreA Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Value PDF Bloomsbury, London, Berlin and New York, 2009 ; ISBN 978 1 4088 0242 7 This book review appeared in The Monthly (February 2010) Review's abstract: The latest book of essays by the English liberal philosopher A.C....
Read MoreExtract from the concluding chapter for David Pritchard (ed.), War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens (Cambridge University Press, 2010). The subject of war and democracy, and their potential symbiosis, has recently been brought to life by the fact that virtually all...
Read MoreIn 1945, following several decades that saw most experiments in democratisation fail, there were only a dozen democracies left on the face of the earth. Since then, despite many ups and downs, democracy has bounced back from near oblivion to...
Read MoreBY JOHN KEANE Griffith Review: Edition 28 Still the Lucky Country? (Review's website here); an edited extract from this essay was published by the Sydney Morning Herald 26-Apr-2010, Page: 9 The Lucky Country by Donald Horne is among my treasured Australian books. When first...
Read MorePublished in the Sydney Ideas Quarterly, December 2009....
Read MoreAn interview with John Keane in The Courier, Dundee, Scotland. 2 December 2009 Click here to read in PDF format...
Read MoreThis essay in Spanish appeared in the Revista Encuentros Uruguayos Año II, Número 2, Noviembre 2009, pp. 208-220 In English the text was published in James Tully (ed.), 1988, Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and His Critics, Princeton University Press. Chapter...
Read MoreDemocracy did not emerge as an historical inevitability, John Keane tells Peter Clarke Inside Story There are some shocks in John Keane’s latest book, The Life and Death of Democracy. First, he punctures the “democracy started in Athens” myth – “assembly democracy,”...
Read MoreWe fight wars to defend it, vote to uphold it and pride ourselves upon it. But what's so good about democracy? In this wide ranging talk, Professor John Keane, author of "The Life and Death of Democracy", discusses the history of...
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