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Too much of a good thing
Security as responsibility of the state after Hobbes
Hobbes justified state sovereignty through the individual striving for security. Yet from the insight that without security there can be no good life, he arrived at a concept of security that endangers the good life, argues Achim Vesper. [more]
Me Ltd.
If individuals are to act as corporations, then they should at least receive the protection conferred by the concept of limited liability: assurance of security and not the threat of social demotion will encourage employees to take professional risks. The Danish "flexicurity" model is instructive. [more]
The art of disappearing
Jean Baudrillard, who died 6 March, gave us the tools to understand the media society and counteract the total assimilation into capitalist overproduction. Excerpts from a previously unpublished interview in which Baudrillard talks about his own death. [German version added] [more]
Giving form to the end
For a new culture of dying
When modern medicine causes dying to intrude ever more into living, then it is in the interests of a good life that we experience our last days not as something that merely happens to us, but as something that we can consciously form, writes Katrin Göring-Eckardt. [more]
Cold comfort
The philosophy of history for advanced readers
The theoretical failure of revolutionary Marxism has meant that the philosophy of history has been consigned wholesale to oblivion. The result is that we now lack an "image" of history that allows us to date the present, argues Arnd Pollmann. [more]
The select few
Admissions systems at US elite universities
Nowhere is the notion of the "achieving society" more firmly anchored than in the US: Obama, a graduate of Yale, is the latest exemplar of upward mobility. Yet the nepotism at work in the admissions systems of elite US universities gives the lie to the rhetoric of meritocracy. [more]
Dead money
Ten theses for a new inheritance law
Diminishing political support for inheritance tax risks forfeiting an essential mechanism of social equality. Bertram Keller proposes ten adjustments to inheritance law that would ensure fairer redistribution. [more]
Painting the silent witnesses of ecological crisis
On the paintings of Anna Meyer
Anna Meyer's rejection of the auratic reception of painting, together with her depiction of "the silent witnesses of ecological crisis", represent a "call for art to once again be negotiated politically", writes Maren Lübbke-Tidow. [more]
Heisszeit
In cooperation with "Polar", the Eurozine Gallery presents Anna Meyer's series of paintings "Heisszeit": a powerful response to ecological and economic crisis and "a call for art once again to be negotiated politically", writes critic and curator Maren Lübbke-Tidow. [more]
No output without input
An inspection of our democracy
Political legitimacy is obtained from the efficiency of policies, rather than their origin in democratic participation. Yet how can a politics of good governance know whether the results of its policies are good if it sets its goals in advance? [more]
"Solving the riddle of all constitutions"
The notion of "post-democracy" has wide currency. Yet is democracy really in decline, or are there signs of its return as an issue of social concern? Members of the "new Frankfurt School" talk to "Polar" editor Peter Siller. [more]
Ecological materialism
How nature becomes political
The ecological reform of the global economy must bring on board those with no interest in preserving nature per se. The more "nature-oriented" a demand is, the less likely it is to be realized and the more catastrophic the consequences will be. [more]
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