The Indifferent Democracy
Luciana Bauer
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In this powerful essay, Luciana Bauer draws on her extensive legal experience, her commitment to human rights, and her political sensitivity to diagnose the two greatest threats of our time: climate collapse and democratic collapse. With analytical precision and interdisciplinary breadth, Bauer intertwines philosophy, history, political theory, constitutional law, and climate law to understand how we came to this point: indifference to democracy, the normalization of authoritarianism, the dominance of algorithms over public debate, the environmental crisis as a backdrop to the dismantling of republican guarantees, and the collapse of public reason. Ranging from the thoughts of Rawls and Habermas to the silent coups fuelled by social media and fake news, in addition to the institutional regression in the United States and Brazil, the book maps out new forms of contemporary servitude and denounces the advance of extinction capitalism. However, it also proposes solutions: a democratic education for the future, an ecological Paideia, an intergenerational pact, and a new contract with Nature.
The Indifferent Democracy is not just an urgent read. It is a call to action. A manifesto for the ethical and civilizational reconstruction that this century demands. A call for us, the new Savages.
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Luciana Bauer is a Brazilian legal scholar whose career has been marked by her defense of human rights and her pioneering work in the field of climate law. With a Law degree from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1997), she served as a Federal Judge in the Federal Regional Court of the 4th Region for more than two decades. During her tenure, she stood out for her work on high-profile cases, including Operation Lava Jato, where she denounced irregularities and procedural abuses, facing pressure and reprisals for her ethical and courageous stance.
After leaving the judiciary in 2022, Bauer founded the Jusclima collective, focused on climate law and indigenous issues, establishing herself as one of the leading voices in the debate on climate justice in Brazil. She is currently a doctoral student in Legal Science at the University of Vale do Itajai (Univali) and Widener University Delaware Law School (USA), where her research focuses on intergenerational climate law, John Rawls' theory of justice, climate geopolitics, and nature pedagogy.
As a guardian of future generations, she aims to build what she calls a Democratic Paideia through her writings: teaching the knowledge that unites ecological preservation and the perpetuation of our constitutional democracies. Her goal is to forge an ethic of a prosperous, joyful, and healthy future for yet-to-be-born beings, both human and non-human.
ISBN: 978-989-36742-0-8
Edition: 1st edition, June 2026
Pages: 328
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 16 x 23 x 1 cm
