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Is There a Promise of Politics?

https://doi.org/10.21453/2311-3065-2018-6-3-140-151

Abstract

We must assess the response of politics to a world that is changing fast and in a way that is increasingly intertwined, complex and unpredictable. Our problem with neoliberalism is not the liberal economy that increased world wealth and brought unprecedented prosperity to emerging countries: our problem is the primacy of the economic markets above every other social dimension. We introduce promise as a major category of analysis that respects time unfolding particularities – contrary to abstract generalities – and helps to rescue politics from the abuses of political fundamentalisms of diverse ideological persuasions.

About the Author

M. Henriques
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Catholic University of Portugal)
Portugal

 Mendo Castro Henriques, PhD, Professor, member of the CEFi Board 

 1649-023 Lisbon, Palma de Cima 



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Henriques M. Is There a Promise of Politics? Communicology. 2018;6(3):140-151. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21453/2311-3065-2018-6-3-140-151

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