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Polity archives from June 2001
The power of place: the house of the people as counterpublic.
June 22, 2001... "The beauty of the house of the people isn't like that of the church or communal palace which obscures and hides the poverty of the workers. It is not for vanity but for inspiration and education. It must be a place where we learn to become...
Democracy, globalization, and the problem of the state.
June 22, 2001... The perception that globalization poses an imminent and serious threat to democracy is widespread. Impressionistic evidence of this threat is certainly powerful: transnational corporations (TNCs) seem ever more able to evade the reach of state...
Contemporary models of democracy.
June 22, 2001... I. Introduction
In The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy, C. B. Macpherson employed the idea of "models of democracy" to explain the development of liberal democracy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They were protective (the...
"Sensitive killers, cruel aesthetes, and pitiless poets": Foucault, Rorty, and the ethics of self-fashioning *.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think that there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.
Michel Foucault
Instead of an ethic of reciprocity or brotherliness, Foucault opts for...
The Family in John Locke's political thought *.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... I. The Family in Liberal Political Thought
In recent years a debate about the role of family in liberal society has been conducted with passion and sometimes with venom. People contend variously that families ought to be governed by nature...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Michael Sandel and the politics of transparency *.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... Rousseau gives republicans a bad name. That, at least, is what Michael Sandel implies when he distances himself from him in a section of Democracy's Discontent entitled "Republican Freedom: Difficulties and Dangers." Sandel puts Rousseau's...