[caption id="attachment_11725" align="alignleft" width="239"] Karl Marx, by Emil Dreyer, around 1900.[/caption] The subject of democracy and ideology has deep and fascinating taproots. They extend back to the late eighteenth century, when the neologism ‘ideology’ sprang to life during the bitterly fought opening...
Read MoreJournal of Social and Political Philosophy 1.1 (2022): 1–13 DOI: 10.3366/jspp.2022.0003 © Edinburgh University Press www.euppublishing.com/jspp John Keane Abstract: There is growing agreement among scholars and citizens that our planet and its peoples are presently living through an era of great political uncertainty. Global pestilence,...
Read More10 March 2021 ‘Breve historia del conocimiento experto, y su creciente importancia para la democracia’ ‘A brief history of expertise, and its growing importance for democracy’ This is part of the online seminar "Liberal democracy/digital democracy"...
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Read MoreDavid Stasavage, The Decline and Rise of Democracy: a Global History From Antiquity to Today Princeton University Press: Princeton and Oxford, 2020), 424 pp., ISBN: 978-0691228976 Democracy and its unknowns A short story by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges tells of an...
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When democratically elected governments cease to be held accountable by a society weakened by poor health, low morale and joblessness, demagogues are prone to blindness and ineptitude HOW DO DEMOCRACIES die? The old question has a new urgency because global surveys are...
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