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In the Long Run
Jonathan White
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Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Politikwissenschaft
Beschreibung
'Exhilarating' Financial Times
'Highly perceptive, engaging and somewhat startling' Literary Review
'A profound meditation on how and why democracy must keep its faith in the future and the future must keep its faith in democracy' David Runciman
Democracy is future-oriented and self-correcting: today's problems can be solved, we are told, in tomorrow's elections. But the biggest issues facing the modern world - from climate collapse and pandemics to recession and world war - each apparently bring us to the edge of the irreversible. What happens to democracy when the future seems no longer open?
In this eye-opening history of ideas, Jonathan White investigates how politics has long been directed by shifting visions of the future, from the birth of ideologies in the nineteenth century to Cold War secrecy and the excesses of the neoliberal age.
As an inescapable sense of disaster defines our politics, White argues that a political commitment to the long-term may be the best way to safeguard democracy. Wide in scope and sharply observed, In the Long Run is a history of the future that urges us to make tomorrow new again.
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This is a refreshing and (dare I say it) timely book. White offers a compelling and lucid account of the multifaceted temporal regime in which current democracies are floundering ... And he offers a strong and convincing defence of representative democracy as the best way to confront the challenges ahead.
Erudite, eloquent, perceptive and wonderfully written ... in this fascinating book, Jonathan White illustrates how democracy fares in the age of emergencies, hyper anxieties and "temporal claustrophobia."
An original reading of the current crisis of democracy
A powerful and poignantly timely political theory of temporality - of the troubled and troubling times in which we live and the imagined futures in and through which they are made and will be remade. Take the time to read it
<i>In The Long Run </i>is a book about the history of the future, and what it means for the present ... for democracy to function, White observes, it is critical that people believe an "open future"
Wise and beautiful ... This magnificent book reminds leaders to take care with the claims they make for the future ... a wonderful work of political scholarship
In an age of ever shorter political time horizons and fractured politics, this book is a profound meditation on how and why democracy must keep its faith in the future and the future must keep its faith in democracy
Highly perceptive, engaging and somewhat startling ... lively, smartly-written, jargon-free ... deft and attractively written
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Exhilarating ... the health of a democracy lies not in what it thinks of itself now, but in the hopes it has for what'
Stimulating and full of original thinking ... fascinating
Insightful ... well-written and compelling, <i>In the Long Run</i> is a must-read for those looking for new insights into political decision-making.
How much time do we have? Jonathan White shows us that the politics of the last two centuries have all begun with this question. Even-and maybe especially-in today's vice grip of temporal compression, he gives us hope that democracy'
White is a scholar with radical commitments ... rigorous and expansive
It is important that those who govern nations should act with a view to the future," Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, "but this is even more necessary in democratic and sceptical ages than in any others."
Kundenbewertungen
neoliberalism, Politics books, communism, enlightenment, David Wengrow, history of ideas, capitalism, political ideology, Jonathan Haidt, Lea Ypi, climate change books