In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea
Author: Jonathan White Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 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...
In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea