#OpenAccess from @democratictheory.bsky.social - The Last Argument for Democracy: The Unsettling Reliance of Embedded Democracies on Comparisons with Authoritarian Specter Regimes - https://cup.org/3Tvo7uW - @bmstudebaker.bsky.social #FirstView
Benjamin Studebaker
@bmstudebaker.bsky.social
Political Theorist from the University of Cambridge. New Open Access Article: https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310251393914 Edinburgh UP Book: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-legitimacy-in-liberal-democracies.html
👀 Das Inhaltsverzeichnis & eine Leseprobe sind nun online:
Julian Nicolai Hofmann@juliannhofmann.bsky.social · 2mo agoHuhu, der 2. Lauf ist da! »Postliberalismus? Eine transatlantische Debatte« erscheint am 20. August bei @suhrkamp.de Mit Beiträgen von: @elifoezmen.bsky.social @samuelmoyn.bsky.social @bmstudebaker.bsky.social @cdaase.bsky.social @tbiebricher.bsky.social … and many more…
Huhu, der 2. Lauf ist da! »Postliberalismus? Eine transatlantische Debatte« erscheint am 20. August bei @suhrkamp.de Mit Beiträgen von: @elifoezmen.bsky.social @samuelmoyn.bsky.social @bmstudebaker.bsky.social @cdaase.bsky.social @tbiebricher.bsky.social … and many more…
Recommended reading! "Debilitated democracy: When the legs get ripped off" by @bmstudebaker.bsky.social and Dirk Jörke. Open access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Debilitated democracy: When the legs get ripped off - Dirk Jörke, Benjamin Studebaker, 2025
Democratic theorists often argue that democracy is in crisis, but nonetheless maintain democracy can be revived. In contrast, this paper argues that modernisati...
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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 Jörke & @bmstudebaker.bsky.social buff.ly/uNfqXUb
Very pleased to announce that Dirk Jörke 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.
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
I'll be in Darmstadt for the next 6 weeks! If you're around and want to get a coffee, reach out
Finally got round to read it, it’s good, you should read it too.
Benjamin Studebaker@bmstudebaker.bsky.social · 2y agoMy 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...
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...
I have a new piece out for Aeon on Gandhi, adapting for a wider audience the article I published earlier this year in Economic & Political Weekly: aeon.co/essays/on-th...
On the varna system, Gandhi’s plan to empower the workers | Aeon Essays
For Indians to be truly free, Gandhi argued they must take up traditional crafts. Was it a quixotic hope or inspired solution?
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I'm really excited to be part of this event next week in Geisa:
Please enjoy this photo of my tortoise taking a pleasant nap
Terribly interesting paralells here with the collapse of Young Hegelianism after 1843 in this piece from @bmstudebaker.bsky.social.
The Millennial Left as a Moment in Internet History
There have been many interesting books and articles recently about the demise of the millennial left. Here are just a few. I like this material--I think we could do with some more reflection about eve...
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