On the Concept of ‘the Political’ and Its Dangerous Deformations
Summary Considerations Based on a Book by Bernard Crick
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https://doi.org/10.26422/RJA.2026.0701.masKeywords:
politics, ideology, analogy, coordination, conciliation, totalitarianism, common goodAbstract
In the present essay, the author comments and developed the strict concept of “politics” proposed by the British philosopher Bernard Crick and opposed it to the notion of “ideology”, that he considered a degradation of the first and a great danger for the human living together in the complete societies.
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