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...Nadia Urbinati Abstract In the context of the ongoing Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” this article responds skeptically to the numerous contributions calling for the supplanting of elections by sortition. While lottocracy is proposed as a solution to the flaws of electoral democracy...

...” to problems that, in better times, we might leave to politicians to resolve. “The crisis for democracy today,” Perl argues, “is that bad government (as Konrád, Václav Havel, and Adam Michnik defined it in the 1980s) appears to be what various electorates crave and therefore choose.” Realizing that elections...

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...Terrill G. Bouricius Abstract While elections are, today, widely considered a fundamental feature of democracy, the argument of this two‐part article, published in the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” is that elections are a problematic and even inappropriate way of choosing...

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... Professor Emerita at Columbia. A former MacArthur Fellow, she was president of the American Historical Association in 1996 – 97. Her books include Jesus as Mother ; Holy Feast, Holy Fast ; Fragmentation and Redemption ; Metamorphosis and Identity ; Wonderful Blood ; Christian Materiality ; Dissimilar...

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...Paul Demont Abstract In consonance with the view of Aristotle in book 4 of the Politics , Montesquieu wrote that “selection by lot is in the nature of democracy; election by choice is in the nature of aristocracy.” Although the drawing of lots was a marker of classical Athenian democracy, Socrates...

... and seventies, the worldwide growth in power of feminism and of the awareness of how complex sexual identity is) were of minimal consequence to him. His horizon was elsewhere. His biographer, Cynthia Haven, calls him affectless. Only two events in his life appear to have mattered: the emergence of his notion...

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..., Simon Goldhill INTRODUCTION: “SURTOUT PAS DE ZÈLE” Joseph Ratzinger delivered his last homily as dean of the College of Cardinals at the votive mass of April 18, 2005, immediately preceding the election of the new pope — Ratzinger himself...

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.... There is a metaphysical component as well to this argument: the xenophobe and xenophile equally presuppose that the identity principle ( a = a ) is applicable to society as well as to mathematics; both assume that each discrete social group is self-identical and differs from all other groups more or less radically...

...; and A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice. Caroline Walker Bynum, professor emerita of medieval European history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and University Professor emerita at Columbia University, was recently elected to the Orden pour le Mérite für...

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