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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