Translated 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 MoreJohn Keane interviews Francis Fukuyama and asks him if the wake proved premature. Source: 'The Weekend Review', The Independent, June 19, 1999 The 'end of history' made a star of Francis Fukuyama. John Keane meets him to ask if the wake proved premature. History...
Read MorePublished 1999 The system of modern communications media that has prevailed since the invention of the printing press – the Gutenberg galaxy – has been dominated by images of scarcity. This fact must be kept in mind when reconsidering the subject of public life,...
Read MorePaper presented at conference on "The Transformation of Civic Life" - Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro and Nashville, Tennessee - November 12-13, 1999. Michael Schudson's The Good Citizen: A History of Civic Life is a very good book. It is one of those rare books...
Read MoreThis paper was originally presented as the Southam Lecture at the annual conference of the Canadian Communication Association, Ottawa, ON, May 31, 1998) Canadian Journal of Communication , Vol. 24(1999)165-178 (Here ) Abstract : Modem communications media since the invention of the...
Read MoreIn Adam Michnik, Letters from Freedom: Post-Cold War Realities and Perspectives. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, pp.: 96-113 Click here to read scanned excerpt in PDF format...
Read More(This is a shortened version of his keynote address at the inaugural meeting of the Amsterdam School of Communications Research, University of Amsterdam, 18 September 1997. This article was first printed in CSD Bulletin Volume 5, Number 1 Autumn 1997) 1....
Read MoreAbstract : We are living in times in which spatial frameworks of communication are in a state of upheaval. The old hegemony of state-structured and territorially-bound public life mediated by radio, television, newspapers and books is being rapidly eroded. In...
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