Stretching the limits of Democratic Imagination
Chapter appeared in Joseph H. Carens, Democracy and Possessive Individualism. The Intellectual Legacy of C.B.Macpherson, 1993, pp. 105-135 PDF...
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14
January
1993
Democracy in the 21st Century
Dictatorship and the Decline of Parliament: Carl Schmitt’s Theory of Political Sovereignty
The Age of Liberalism The Spiritual Crisis of Parliament The Total State First Principles of Parliament? Pre-liberal Parliaments Par1iarnentary Government as Utopia Reforming Parliament Dictatorship and Parliament Parliament and Socialism Notes Nowadays the representative system is associated with the republican form of state. But originally it arose in monarchies,...
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11
January
1993
New perspectives on social movements
An interview with Alberto Melucci, 1991, pp. 180-233, From Alberto Melucci, Nomads of the Present - Social Movements and Individual Needs in Contemporary Society, edited by John Keane and Paul Mier. Click here to read excerpt scanned in PDF format...
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08
January
1991
John Keane
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The Polish Laboratory
New Left Review I/179, January/February 1990 pp. 103-110 Warsaw. Wednesday December 7th. The eighth anniversary of martial law approaches. Foul-smelling fog blankets the city. The battered Russian-made taxi which fetches me from the airport clatters down potholed roads. Rows of grey apartment...
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07
January
1990
The Politics of retreat
From The Political Quarterly1990, 61 (3), 340–352. Please click here to read scanned except in PDF format...
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06
January
1990
John Keane
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Democracy and the Decline of the Left
From Norberto Bobbio, 1989, Democracy and Dictatorship. The Nature and Limits of State Power, Polity Press. Introduction (vii-xxviii) Read Introduction (vii-xxviii) published in Norberto Bobbio, 1997 in PDF format...
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05
January
1989
Doing Without Utopias: An Interview with Václav Havel
An interview conducted by Erica Blair (AKA John Keane), Prague, 1986. Click here to read scanned interview in PDF format...
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27
January
1987
The Modern Democratic Revolution: Reflections on Jean-François Lyotard’s La Condition postmoderne
Published 1987 Click here to read a scanned excerpt in PDF format...
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03
January
1987
John Keane
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A Human Face in Prague – A conversation with Václav Havel
An interview conducted by Erica Blair (AKA John Keane), Prague, 1986. Click here to read scanned interview in PDF format...
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27
January
1986
John Keane
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The Legacy of Max Weber
By John Keane, Public Life and Late Capitalism,Cambridge University Press, 1984. Chapter 2, pp. 30-69. This chapter has been scanned and it is available for download in PDF format More information about this book, including excerpts and notes can be viewed here....
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02
January
1984