January 2025
Intermediate to advanced
258 pages
10h 14m
English
What does it mean to be a liberal in contrast to being a populist? I will try to answer this question on the premise that populists beg a central question of modern politics: the question of popular sovereignty. This claim is old: it stems from an interpretation of democracy in the lineage of thinkers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau or Carl Schmitt, who take literally the idea of the kratos of the demos, the rule of the people, and thus inspire an image of a self-governing society in which “those [people] who rule and those who are ruled are the same” (Schmitt 2017 [1923], 20). In this ...
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