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The Politics of Freedom

Freedom & State Intervention

Audren Layeux follows the doomed quest for state emancipation of the self.

The contemporary world has given birth to a growing feeling of helplessness. Globalisation, once portrayed as promising a great future, is now associated with economic turmoil and the growing subjugation of politics to economics. Democracy is in crisis around the globe, and the number of citizens who feel disenfranchised keeps on growing, as they judge the political systems under which they live to be either corrupt or incapable of addressing new forms of violence, social disintegration, economic depression and other challenges.

Commentators usually blame this situation on an array of ideologies and trends including electronic media, global transportation technologies, and neoliberalism. Here I will take a different tack.

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