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Tag: democracy

Politics

Democracy, Workers’ Councils, and Political Thought: What Can We Learn from Events?

posted by Kirsty Crosbie March 30, 20218 min read8 Views

When I first grappled with the questions that would in time turn into my Edinburgh University Press book Visions of Council Democracy: Castoriadis, Lefort, Arendt…

Photograph of the US Capitol at night
Philosophy

Spinoza and democracy in peril

posted by Naomi Farmer February 18, 20219 min read91 Views

By Dan Taylor In October 2020, in the days leading up to the US Presidential Election, over 130 leading historians…

The world of Spinoza's Theological–Political Treatise
History

The world of Spinoza’s Theological–Political Treatise

posted by Naomi Farmer February 11, 202110 min read149 Views

By Dan Taylor Baruch Spinoza’s Theological–Political Treatise, published anonymously in 1670, quickly turned Europe upside-down. Dismissed by one contemporary as…

Politics

Post-Politicisation and the Return of the Political

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals September 17, 201511 min read2730 Views

Erik Swyngedouw and Japhy Wilson explore the parallax gap between struggles for democracy against a backdrop of growing political disaffection.

OLR
Language and Literature

The Political and/or Politics

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals August 1, 20147 min read1944 Views

By Jean-Luc Nancy “As an opening, a quick overview: if our politics [la politique] is no longer simply and strictly…

The Scottish Independence Referendum
Cultural Studies

Will the Scottish Referendum process be fair?

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals May 14, 20141 min read2101 Views

Four months ahead of the Scottish independence referendum, Stephen Tierney (University of Edinburgh) in an Analysis piece in the Edinburgh…

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