The Life and Death of Democracy – John Keane’s Answers to Ten Questions
The Weekend Australian Magazine November 13-14, 2010 PDF...
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April
2010
Democracy in the 21st Century
Reply by A.C. Grayling to John Keane’s Reflections on A.C. Grayling’s Liberty in the Age of Terror. A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Value
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...
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March
2010
John Keane
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Reflections on A.C Grayling’s Liberty in the Age of Terror
A 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....
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February
2010
War, Peace and Democracy
Extract 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...
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January
2010
Democracy in the 21st Century: Global Questions
In 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...
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January
2010
Out of the ordinary – Bad luck, disaster, democracy
BY 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...
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January
2010
Democracies’ bloody beginnings
Published in the Sydney Ideas Quarterly, December 2009....
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December
2009
John Keane
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The life and times of democracy
An interview with John Keane in The Courier, Dundee, Scotland. 2 December 2009 Click here to read in PDF format...
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02
December
2009
John Keane
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Otra tesis acerca de la filosofia de la historia
This 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...
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02
November
2009
John Keane
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Will democracy survive?
Democracy 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,”...
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September
2009