Force of God
Force of God
The crisis of liberal democracy has less to do with violent assaults on its internal makeup from either domestic or foreign agents than with what has been identified, although in entirely different contexts and sets of circumstances, by earlier political theorists as a “legitimation crisis.” At the same time, such a legitimation crisis arises not from the failure of liberal institutions to “represent” the generic will or interests of their constituents but out of the impossibility of any conceivable politeia emerging from the complete evanescence of the general equivalent for a global political economy.
Keywords: Mignolo, Agamben, Benjamin, Critchley, Legitimation, political
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