Democracy is being hollowed out by the very processes of modernization once thought to sustain it. Our article of the week argues that epochal shifts like hyper-individualism have eroded the conditions for democratic self-rule.
By Dirk Jรถrke & @bmstudebaker.bsky.social
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29.11.2025 12:01 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Very pleased to announce that Dirk Jรถrke and I have published a new article in the European Journal of Social Theory! It's open access, so you can read & download it for free.
16.11.2025 21:00 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
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New issue of The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition Vol. 19, No. 1 (2025) brill.com/view/journal... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @dgb-philosophy.bsky.social @bmstudebaker.bsky.social
15.05.2025 01:15 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I'll be in Darmstadt for the next 6 weeks! If you're around and want to get a coffee, reach out
13.01.2025 10:38 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Finally got round to read it, itโs good, you should read it too.
12.12.2024 14:43 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
My new book with Edinburgh University Press is out! How do legitimacy and ideology interface in old, embedded democracies where alternative political systems are unthinkable and pluralism runs deep?
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-legitim...
30.11.2024 06:06 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
I'm really excited to be part of this event next week in Geisa:
07.09.2024 05:03 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Please enjoy this photo of my tortoise taking a pleasant nap
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Philosophy | Focus on reflexivity and ancient greek philosophy | Also interested in politics and economics, history and languages
International Political Economy, banking and finance, Eastern Europe, Vienna
Opinion writer. Bylines: @thewire_in, @nytimes, @htTweets
https://thewire.in/author/sushil-aaron, https://tinyurl.com/4wrvjah9
https://politicsandbooks.substack.com/
Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
Writer and critic โจ linktr.ee/bramegieben โจ Author of THE DARKEST TIMELINE and CRISIS MASCULINITY. Host of Strange Exiles. Editor at Revol Press.
Psychology, behavior & environment, especially climate change. Uni of Amsterdam; Assoc. Editor ๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฏ๐ท. ๐๐ด๐บ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐บ ๐ฌ c.brick@uva.nl www.cameronbrick.com -- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MeoqEYgAAAAJ&hl=en
Producer: The Uncertain Kingdom, Odyssey, The Crow.
3rd film as director: Brighton Storeys is on its way.
Also custodian of The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
Philosophy & political theory @NUQatar | Working on theories of power, genealogy, political community, global capitalism | https://philpeople.org/profiles/torsten-menge
Author of David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God, out on January 15 2026 and published by Bloomsbury. Also entertainments editor for NationalWorld. Also a bit too keen on porridge, toast, Swindon, Noel Edmonds etc
AI, philosophy, spirituality
Head of interpretability research at EleutherAI, but posts are my own views, not Eleutherโs.
Feuilleton F.A.Z. | Neue Sachbรผcher
Wer die Welt verรคndern will, muss sie vorher verstehen.
Social Philosophy @ Freie Universitรคt Berlin | Ethics & Critical Theories of AI @ Universitรคt Osnabrรผck
Part of the research group: ectaiuos.bsky.social
PhD in Political Thought, University of Cambridge
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/thomas-j-holland
Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Milan, Italy
Postdoctoral Teaching Scholar in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Interested in 19th and 20th century political thought.
