Democracy in a Postmodern Era with Bruce Ackerman

Democracy Paradox

We have to reconstruct the foundations of our democracy, building on the past, not repudiating everything we're building on it.

Bruce Ackerman
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Bruce Ackerman is the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale. He is well known as a legal scholar and a political philosopher. His most recent book is The Postmodern Predicament: Existential Challenges of the Twenty-First Century.
Key Highlights

• Introduction - 0:20
• Modernity - 2:37
• Postmodernism - 15:26
• Deliberation Day - 36:08
• Rethinking Modernity - 43:28

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The Postmodern Predicament: Existential Challenges of the Twenty-First Century by Bruce Ackerman
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