Tag: history

  • KbA

    Domestic Realism and the Philosophy of Liberation

    For the past two years or so I have been in an accidental personal project which consists of reading all of Dussel’s body of work. His immense, encyclopedic, amount of texts make this task daunting, but so far so good. Recently, however, writing my thesis I have stumbled upon a text by Mark Fisher, or rather, a book which transcribes…

  • KbA

    On Leadership, between Dussel and Burnham

    For the past months I have struggled with several ideas pertaining to democratic theory. First, on the question of legitimacy (“what gives rulers legitimacy”). Second, on the methods towards electing —and maintaining— a leader (i.e., either presidentialism or parliamentarism, but also exact mechanisms of representation, either representative democracy or direct democracy). Third, and above all, relating to the perils of…