Comments on: Books of the Year http://virtualstoa.net/2007/12/22/books-of-the-year/ Chris Brooke's Weblog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:15:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Cliche Guevara http://virtualstoa.net/2007/12/22/books-of-the-year/#comment-143999 Cliche Guevara Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:06:20 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2007/12/22/books-of-the-year/#comment-143999 I thought Dworkin's "Is Democracy Possible Here?" was quite good. Not because of any intellectual content. It's not supposed to be a book for intellectuals. But because here was an intellectual coming out of his Liberal-Egalitarian Ivory Tower and saying "look, there is something really fucked up in modern American politics, and all the work I have spent my life on has had absolutely zero impact. So now i am going to write a book which tries to speak to real people and make a difference to their lives". Which i thought was quite noble, not least because I find myself disagreeing with pretty much all of his high-powered stuff but could really get behind this project. I thought Dworkin’s “Is Democracy Possible Here?” was quite good.

Not because of any intellectual content. It’s not supposed to be a book for intellectuals. But because here was an intellectual coming out of his Liberal-Egalitarian Ivory Tower and saying “look, there is something really fucked up in modern American politics, and all the work I have spent my life on has had absolutely zero impact. So now i am going to write a book which tries to speak to real people and make a difference to their lives”. Which i thought was quite noble, not least because I find myself disagreeing with pretty much all of his high-powered stuff but could really get behind this project.

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