...Ya-Chung Chuang This essay examines the recent crisis of democracy in Taiwan. The Sunflower Movement and its enduring dynamism have successfully mobilized Taiwanese voters to rethink an urgent situation with regard to the “PRC effect,” which, related to an economic and political assertion...

...Philip Mirowski This is a meditation on the problems and pitfalls of writing a history of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, in the context of Nancy MacLean’s popular book on the role of James Buchanan in modern political economy. MacClean Nancy , Democracy in Chains: The Deep History...

...Richard Bourke Duke University Press 2004 ‘‘Imperialism’’ and ‘‘Democracy’’ in Modern Ireland, 1898–2002 Richard Bourke ‘‘Violence in Ireland is the result of British Imperialism, of the British connection and the British...

...Abdeljelil Temimi In the interest of defending the Revolution of Dignity and Democracy, the Temimi Foundation organized a series of symposia on the revolution, producing a full audio-video record of the dialogue and discussions of dozens of the revolution’s leading activists, which have been...

...Arif Dirlik This discussion elaborates on Susan Buck-Morss's critique of the political thought of the Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, in her essay, “Democracy: An Unfinished Project.” Buck-Morss's critique provides occasion for reflecting on a challenge that faces radical criticism: how...

...Karl Kroeber Duke University Press 2006 Dossier on American Democracy American Democracy, Boomer Humanism, Brotherhood Karl Kroeber My mind, because the minds that I have loved, The sort of beauty I have approved...

...Hortense J. Spillers Duke University Press 2006 ‘‘Democracy in America Notes of a Native Daughter Two Centuries On Hortense J. Spillers I would bet that America’s Democratic National Committee carried out some very sustained soul...

...Ronald AT. Judy Ronald AT. Judy 2006 Democracy or Ideology Ronald AT. Judy There is a significant resemblance between the Palestinian parlia- mentary election of 2006 and that of Algeria in 1992. In both instances, a populist...

...Daniel T. O'Hara Duke University Press 2006 Toward Global Democracy: James Baldwin and the Stoic Vision of Amor Fati Daniel T. O’Hara One of Michel Foucault’s final lecture courses, published recently as The Hermeneutics...

...R. Radhakrishnan Duke University Press 2006 When Is Democracy Political? R. Radhakrishnan My purpose in this essay is twofold: (1) to initiate a critique of the relationship of politics and ‘‘the political’’ to the concept known...

...: nationalism, populism, and feminism. In my essay, I begin by showing how Spanish public discourse tends to situate all three on a single continuum, identifying their intersections in negative terms as a potentially disruptive excess that must be controlled, if not eliminated, to avoid a crisis of democracy...

... paradoxes within the unfinished project of democracy: the contradiction between free markets (capitalist inequality) and free societies (political equality), the hierarchical relationship between the people and their leaders (Jacques Ranciére’s Ignorant Schoolmaster is discussed), and the lack of democracy...

...Martin Ryle In making aesthetic performance and aesthetic education central to his dialectical evaluation of social democracy, Kazuo Ishiguro especially addresses teachers of culture. The Unconsoled and Never Let Me Go explore the position of art in European social-democratic society since 1945...

..., and human decency? In their efforts to respond to such questions, prominent historians, political commentators, and theorists have correlated Trump's rise to political power in terms of his transmogrification of a large segment of the American populace into US liberal democracy's fascist totalitarian Other...

...Chua Beng Huat By the end of the twentieth century, it was conventional, among social and political theory circles in developed countries of the West, to assume that a liberal capitalist democracy would be the endpoint of political economic development. However, this hegemonic desire of liberalism...

...Qing Liu; Barrett McCormick This paper examines how market-oriented reforms to media are changing the public sphere in contemporary China with particular concern for how the commercialization of media may impact the prospects for democracy. While the authors find “public sphere” a problematic...

...,” the article argues that what brings these authors together is a unique understanding of democracy as the defining trait of modernity. This translates into a democratic pragmatics, in which moral norms and historical laws are fractured and questioned, leaving an “empty place” (Claude Lefort) at the center...

... for building a genuine democracy, and for opposing and working against capitalism in its current form? To what extent can anarchism be a resource in constructing new “universals” that are attentive to and open to difference? Building a new society from the bottom up offers the best prospects for a better...

... Revolution of Dignity and Democracy and its place in today’s world and the course of history. © 2012 by Abdeljelil Temimi 2012 The Tunisian Revolution Observatory: Considering the Perspectives of the Intellectual and Political Elite Abdeljelil...

... aspirations the desire to become the institution of transnational democracy that otherwise has not materialized. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Obama’s Rifts Donald E. Pease This morning, Hortense Spillers delivered an eloquently...