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The Liberal Ontos
Subjectivity and Raison D’état in Liberal Democracies “You either accept the Enlightenment and remain within the tradition of its rationalism …or else you criticise the Enlightenment and then try to...
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Two Concepts of Liberty and Classical Republicanism
Deconstructing a False Dichotomy Robert Nozick opens the preface to Anarchy, State, and Utopia asserting that “individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group may do to them (without...
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The Retreat to the State of Nature
The Tea Party’s Denial of the Enlightenment Taming Leviathan The economic views embraced by the Tea Party movement understand of big government as the major cause of America’s financial woes. An...
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“Real Democracy”: Negotiating Difference within Consensus
Caught Between Habermas and Mouffe From Syntagma Square to Zuccotti Park many protesters claim to be exercising a novel idea of democratic politics, one which breaks away from the worn-out paradigms of...
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Popular Sovereignty and Sovereign Debt
What does the friction between popular sovereignty and sovereign debt entail for our democratic orders? Are we experiencing a loss of popular sovereignty in the sovereign debt crisis? Voices from both...
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Conceptual Innovations in Latin American Indigenous Movements
By Giulio Amerigo Caperchi What can new political concepts advanced by indigenous movements teach the Western tradition of democratic theory? As the undeliverable promises of social democracy gave way...
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The Locus of Sovereignty
By Giulio Amerigo Caperchi What legitimizes sovereign power in modern liberal democracies? Perhaps one of the most worrying issues directly linked to the financial meltdown has been the repercussions...
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Food Sovereignty
By Giulio Amerigo Caperchi A democratic claim for self-determination from the world’s largest peasant movement Banana Stand in Riobamba, Ecuador. By Giulio Caperchi One of the most important social...
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Towards a New Definition of Liberty
Neo-Roman liberty: beyond positive and negative freedom By Giulio Amerigo Caperchi Delacroix-La liberté guidant le peuple. Credit: Wikipedia One of the most influential essays in the political...
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Civic Republicans and Arms Rights
In the history of civic republicanism, the right to bear arms was a means to an end. The end being the erection of free political institutions, the establishment of democracy, and above all, the...
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