Berman, S. 1997. Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic. World Politics , Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 401-429. The key point in this brilliant article is that loose talk about "civil society" as a Good Thing that will Help Democracy Thrive is simply not good enough. Put down that hypodermic full of de... Continue Reading →
Constant craving- of liberty, independence and the State…
Researching my thesis/an article-I-want-to-submit somewhere, I got interested (i.e. briefly stuck my head down a rabbit hole) in the question on the use and abuse of metaphor in political theory. Via inter-library loan, got hold of this- Ankersmit, F. 1993. Metaphor in Political Theory. In Ankersmit F. and Mooij, J. Knowledge and Language Vol III.... Continue Reading →