Richard Whatmore - Democracy and Empire
from Lectures in Intellectual History Hosted by Institute of IH
One of the great surprises of modern thought is the survival of democracy. Today the victory of democracy continues to be associated with the American and French Revolutions. But democracy was for the most part castigated by reformers and revolutionaries across Europe during the enlightenment era. Attempts to apply democratic ideas universally were generally ridiculed. In this lecture, Richard Whatmore argues that the challenge faced by advocates of democracy was to make the theory compatible with larger forms of state; in short, to turn a democracy into a stable empire. Get full access to Institute of Intellectual History at standrewsiih.substack.com/subscribe
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