“Liberty” or “Freedom”: lost in translation? INTERCULCTURAL TRANSLATION INTERSEMIOTIC, Vol.3, No.2 (2014)
Postmodern, neo-liberalised capitalism challenges many of the “infallible truths” of civil history, one of which is democracy, which forms one of the two main pillars of the bourgeois moral and political background, the other one being “freedom”. Besides any distortions in the contemporary, representative, political systems of developed countries (many more falsifications could be highlighted with respect to the issue of “freedom/liberty”),1 we are currently witnessing a dispute of the rationale of democratic legitimacy and its gradual substitution by more “conveniently efficient” forms of justifying socio-political power…
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