In Defence of PoliticsA&C Black, 7 Νοε 2005 - 245 σελίδες Crick asserts that politics, with its compromises and power struggles, remains the only tested alternative to government by coercion, making both freedoma nd order possible in heterogeneous societies. For Crick, politics is necessarily imperfect, messy anmd complex, yet his book defends it against htose who would identify it with (and reduce it to) ideology, nationalism, technology or populist democracy. In this fifth edition, Crick warns us that present-day politicians are in danger of threatening both citizenship and common humanity. He discusses the popular distrust for politicians in both the UK and USA, arguing that they have lowered the level of publicdebate for short-term gain; and he discusses how suchvshort-termism is preventing timely attempts to tackle despoliation of the global environment. |
Περιεχόμενα
1 The nature of political rule | 1 |
2 A defence of politics against ideology | 18 |
3 A defence of politics against democracy | 38 |
4 A defence of politics against nationalism | 54 |
5 A defence of politics against technology | 70 |
6 A defence of politics against false friends | 87 |
7 In praise of politics | 113 |
Three footnotes | 133 |
Epilogue 2000 | 230 |
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