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White, Jonathan

 
9781800812321: In the Long Run: The Future As a Political Idea
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ISBN 10 : 1800812329 ISBN 13 : 9781800812321
Editeur : Profile Books Ltd, 2025

Synopsis

'Exhilarating' Financial Times

Recommended by Blackwell's

'A profound meditation on how and why democracy must keep its faith in the future and the future must keep its faith in democracy' David Runciman

Democracy is future-oriented and self-correcting: today's problems can be solved, we are told, in tomorrow's elections. But the biggest issues facing the modern world - from climate collapse and pandemics to recession and world war - each apparently bring us to the edge of the irreversible. What happens to democracy when the future seems no longer open?

In this eye-opening history of ideas, Jonathan White investigates how politics has long been directed by shifting visions of the future, from the birth of ideologies in the nineteenth century to Cold War secrecy and the excesses of the neoliberal age.

As an inescapable sense of disaster defines our politics, White argues that a political commitment to the long-term may be the best way to safeguard democracy. Wide in scope and sharply observed, In the Long Run is a history of the future that urges us to make tomorrow new again.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jonathan White is Professor of Politics at the London School of Economics. Based at LSE's European Institute, he has published widely on democracy and the politics of emergency. He has written for the Guardian and New Statesman, and received the British Academy Brian Barry Prize for Excellence in Political Science.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A revealing history of the future as a political idea, from the Enlightenment to the climate crisis and global warfare

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Éditeur
Profile Books Ltd
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1800812329
ISBN 13 
9781800812321
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
PROFILE BOOKS
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