POLSCI 3VV3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Immanuel Kant, Joseph Schumpeter, Nerd
6 Feb 2018
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Skim chapter 4 of held, but it s not the best compared to the past two weeks. What held wants to do is provide a stronger understanding of democracy which he takes from karl marx (which is odd because marx didn t really have a theory of democracy). Skip to conclusion of c4, unless you re into marxism or communism. Arendt is writing just a few years after schumpeter and is directly responding to people like schumpeter. A direct rebuttal to schumpeter s theory of democracy but also, arendt is a great example of how to draw back on earlier traditions of republican thought in order to theorize about democracy. Democracy can be more than an occasional referendum! Born in germany to a secular jewish german family. Grew up in koenigsberg (a place that is now kaliningrad, taken by the. Russians) same town as immanuel kant grew up and lived in.
