Abstract
[Autom. eng. transl.] The article aims to offer a first contribution to analyze some trends affecting contemporary democracy, which for several years has been at the center of constant "rethinking". In particular, we will try to highlight how a point of contact within this dialogue can be identified in the impact that the "ideology of immediacy" determines on public life: in fact, on the one hand, political theory investigates consequences that this ideology pours on the functioning of democracy (crisis of representation, irrelevance of intermediate bodies, prevalence of personal leadership), on the other hand, in "Brothers all" there emerges a harsh criticism of policies that have "immediate interest" as their horizon . The wide debate that is opening around the mediation-immediacy polarization recalls the ancient underlying tension that characterizes politics, that between the interest of conflicting selfishness aimed at pursuing immediate (and often ephemeral) results and the idea that its constitutive purpose is the vision of distant interest.
Translated title of the contribution | [Autom. eng. transl.] Democracy after Covid-19. Notes on Social doctrine and political theory |
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Original language | Italian |
Pages (from-to) | 106-115 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | LA SOCIETÀ |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Keywords
- Democrazia
- Rappresentanza
- Dottrina sociale
- COvid-19