Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Romantic Roots of Modern Democracy
Rousseau’s political ideas were at once idealistic, “mystical,” and collectivist.
Poetry and the Mystique of the Self in John Stuart Mill: Sources of Libertarian Socialism
After Mill discovered Romantic poetry he decided to abandon the “mere reasoning machine” that was his old self—and he emerged from this period a changed man.
From Democracy to Hyperdemocracy
I soon began to wonder how this cheapening of the word "democracy" might be linked to the cheapening of the underlying concept