democracy Archives - Franklin Humanities Institute https://humanitiesfutures.org/tag/democracy/ Humanities Futures Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:20:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Don’t Breathe a Word: A Psychoanalysis of Medicine’s Inflations https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/dont-breathe-a-word-a-psychoanalysis-of-medicines-inflations/ Fri, 18 May 2018 15:10:26 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=3172 Modern medicine has achieved great things but, like all institutions, it has significant flaws. Medicine’s major flaw is inflation, appearing in a variety of guises and intensities as the following: overconfidence, arrogance, self-importance, narcissism, authoritarianism, impulsivity or lack of reflection, fear of failure, intolerance of ambiguity, and overdeterminism.

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]]> The Future of Political Theory: Political Theory as an Anti-discipline https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/future-political-theory-political-theory-anti-discipline/ Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:16:35 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=2753 Political theory may be a strange academic discipline, or even an anti-discipline, but in the end, it doesn’t matter where political theory fits into the academy. What matters is the role it plays, or fails to play, in sustaining a democratic society.

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]]> End of Translation https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/end-of-translation/ Thu, 16 Feb 2017 00:45:28 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=1991 Translation lies at the core of contemporary humanistic study and serves also to define and guard its boundaries.

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