July 31, 2005
Are we not witnessing a turning away from public life that arises from a disillusionment with political leadership and political institutions accompanied by retreat into privacy? A retreat into the trails and joys of the self-regulating market and consumer society?
Does that not mean a rejection of the political as a determinate public space (a forum, an agora)? Does it not mean that the political has been invaded by the market?
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