Historicising the Question of Democracy’s Presentism: The Concept of Interest and Political Languages of the Future in France, 1830–1850
A long-standing allegation holds that democracy is inherently biased in favour of the present to the detriment of the future. In this article, I question this premise by looking at temporality as a contested aspect of democratic practices of legitimisation. I approach democracy as a fundamentally hi...
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Helsinki University Press
2018-05-01
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| Series: | Redescriptions |
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| Online Access: | https://journal-redescriptions.org/articles/14 |