Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS
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Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942) contains a famous, and minimal, definition of democracy as the competition between political elites to sell themselves to the electorate. Schumpeter wanted to debunk more elevated ideas of the common good and the popular will. Why then has his theory proved so influential for people who want to rescue democracy as much as those who want to diminish it?
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History of Ideas Q and A
Shklar on Hypocrisy
Nozick on Utopia
Rawls on Justice
De Beauvoir on the Other
Schmitt on Friend vs Enemy
Luxemburg on Revolution
Nietzsche on Morality
Butler on Machines
Douglass on Slavery
Bentham on Pleasure
Rousseau on Inequality
Q & A with David
Fukuyama on History
MacKinnon on Patriarchy
Fanon on Colonialism
Arendt on Action
Hayek on the Market
Weber on Leadership
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TALKING POLITICS