Has democratic politics become too contemptuous of everyday life?

30/09/2021 54 min
Has democratic politics become too contemptuous of everyday life?

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Episode Synopsis


In modern politics and moral philosophy, what is most meaningfully human is regularly ignored in the interests of solving “real problems”. While this is often understandable, it also points to a certain debility, a malaise at the heart of the way forms of both representative politics and moral philosophy are often practiced: an inattention to the “everyday”.