The Aesthetics of Democratic Life-Forms
Building "Normative Orders" Max-Horkheimer-Str. 2, Frankfurt am MainSince its birth at the end of the 18th century, modern democracy has proved to be more than a system of government: forms of governance and ways of living dovetail as to formulate its structural complexity. Already in classical antiquity, politicians and thinkers observed the profound influence of the self-governing collective in shapingindividual sensibilities; the …