...Stanley N. Katz © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 C O L U M N S DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTIONALISM AFTER MILITARY OCCUPATION Reflections on the United States’ Experience in Japan, Germany, Afghanistan, and Iraq...

...Barry Allen Crick Nathan , Dewey for a New Age of Fascism: Teaching Democratic Habits ( University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2019 ), 234 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 4 3 4 Nathan Crick, Dewey for a New Age...

...Nabila Abbas; Yves Sintomer Abstract A contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” this article examines the diverse types of imaginary that support sortition, which is currently at the heart of important debates on the reform of existing democratic institutions. Different...

...Jack Miles john.jack.miles@gmail.com Mustafa Akyol , Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance ( New York : St. Martin's Essentials , 2021 ), 308 pp. Omri Boehm , Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel ( New York : New York Review...

...Lars Laird Iversen Abstract This guest column in Common Knowledge presents the concept of “communities of disagreement” to an international and interdisciplinary audience, perhaps for the first time. It takes as its starting point the contrast between agonistic and deliberative democratic theories...

... employment programs so that those threatened by famine can be empowered to command food. Politically, democratic participation and a free press can work to ensure government accountability for famine prevention. The choice that Sen urges, however, is not for the state over the market—the experience...

..., like Herbert Marcuse and Jean-Paul Sartre, and shows where it fits into American intellectual life, particularly the intellectual history of Dissent Magazine and the democratic Left. Walzer's idea of a connected social critic contrasts to Sartre's idea of an “engaged critic.” The article also examines...

.... Additionally, although not as its central focus, King Michael argues that a restoration of the Romanian monarchy could help to stabilize and improve the country’s political fortunes. Romania Ion Iliescu postcommunist history monarchy democratization Copyright © 1995 Duke University Press 1995 ...

.... The major conclusion of the paper is that although the practice was developed by the Shī `ī minority living under intolerable political conditions, at different times under unbearable political conditions and the absence of democratic processes, it has provided Muslims a strategy to regroup and engage...

... that, while in fiction an accommodation with modernism has been reached, an equivalent achievement still awaits in poetry. Among writers of fiction, a type that Susan Sontag called the “good-humored, sweet Beckett” has arisen to combine the axiology of modernism with the democratic ethics of antimodernism...

.... Indeed, the church provides a necessary check on the excesses of liberal society, particularly those of capitalism and democratic populism. Its essential point is the transcendent dimension of the human person—our connection with the divine. The pursuit of economic and political ends needs to be governed...

...” is underway in which not only the government administrations of their countries have changed but also their systems of governance—and changed for the worse. “It is not,” they agree, “what the democratic opposition spent twenty-five years fighting for.” Their apprehension is that, under new forms, the old...

... not only about how our minds work but also about how to invent our own idioms and even our own worlds. And “the dialogue of the mind with itself” that Matthew Arnold assessed as the characteristic modern disease, these most sophisticated of postmodern revisionists redescribe as normative and democratic...

... resistant to being ruled — a treasury of axioms and apothegms,” which this editorial collects, updates, and analyzes. Given that democratic systems and constitutions are “open and subject to further development,” Konrád urges us to devise and run experiments in governance that apply “creative imagination...

..., in which not only the government administrations of their countries have changed, but also their systems of governance—for the worse. “It is not,” they agree, “what the democratic opposition spent twenty-five years fighting for.” Their apprehension is that, under new forms, the old authoritarian impulses...

... of the democratic and pluralist States in which they live. My concern—as a practicing Catholic and a practicing lawyer—is that the increasingly fierce Church criticism, which arose during the papacy of John Paul II and now of Benedict XVI, of the perceived trend towards secularization in the social and political...

... education in the possibilities and limits of democratic political life in a scientific age. Duke University Press 2010 Symposium: Apology for Quietism, Part 4 The Critic as Quietist Thorstein Veblen’s Radical Realism Sidney Plotkin No one ever...

... thus been on the scene for some time, appearing first as anticommunist rebels and then as liberal and democratic intellectuals, activists, and politicians in the postcommunist period. As targets of communist derision and persecution, the dissidents—Havel, Michnik, György Konrád, János Kis...

.... Murphy begins his essay by contrasting constitutionalism with democratic theory: Whereas democratic theory turns to moral relativism, constitutionalism turns to moral realism. It presumes that “out there” lurk discoverable standards to judge whether public policies infringe on human dignity...

... in power, either. Anti-Semitism in Poland was not due to the excesses of the rad- ical right; it was, rather, an integral element and hallmark of a vast political camp—the national democrats—that was embraced by a great segment of pub- lic opinion, including...