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Big Ideas for Big Books
I have written about the lack of ‘big books’ for a political movement as a symptom of its inability to move beyond previous ideologies, and at the same time ‘big books’ as a means of achieving the very task of original philosophical exploration and expansion. Now we need a process...
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Quotes: Extreme democracy
A fifth form of democracy, in other respects the same, is that in which, not the law, but the multitude, have the supreme power, and supersede the law by their decrees.This is a state of affairs brought about by the demagogues. For in democracies which are subject to the law...