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From the Enlightenment on, modern political philosophy has been character- ized by the abandonment of a set of questions that an earlier age had deemed central: What is a well-lived life? What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of the city and humanity? How does culture and religion fit into all of this? For the modern world, the death of... See more
Peter Thiel • The Straussian Moment
1/ We are entering a post-progressive era. The cultural left-liberalism which emerged a century ago and took off in the late 1960s is exhausted. This ‘vibe shift’doesn’t just repudiate the last decade, but the last 60 years. My latest @WSJ
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
En un sens, l’élection de Trump entérine, pour le reste du monde, la fin d’une politique orientée vers un but assignable. Ce n’est pas une politique « postvérité », c’est une politique postpolitique, c’est-à-dire, littéralement sans objet puisqu’elle rejette le monde qu’elle prétend habiter.
Bruno LATOUR • Où atterrir ? (Cahiers libres)
What are the forces that a postliberal politics will have to contend with after the pandemic? Besides hostile foreign powers and tech totalitarianism, there are the forces of hyper-capitalism and extreme identity politics that disrupt the lives we assumed were solid.
Adrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal
The new normal consists not in a new pattern but in the inability of a new pattern to settle into place.
Antón Barba-Kay • The Once and Vital Center
The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Future (Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies)
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For many voters, the post–New Deal coalition Democratic Party has ceased to represent any particular project. Instead, it has become associated with weak half measures, technocratic workarounds, uninspiring compromises, mealy-mouthed excuses, and obvious diversions