L | LAW & LIBERALISM

Episode 3 August 04, 2023 00:47:08
L | LAW & LIBERALISM
Mutant: Dialogues at the End of Democracy
L | LAW & LIBERALISM

Aug 04 2023 | 00:47:08

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Show Notes

“At the heart of law is not justice but the will to punish. And it is when this will to punish becomes a pervasive political impulse, a mass phenomenon, that we leave democracy and enter what we call neodemocracy: the idea that the law is here not to protect the vulnerable, or be responsible to those who are outnumbered. When punishment becomes the guiding force in and of law, we have left the realm of human freedom. We have entered into what liberals call the rule of law.”

What, Mutant asks, does the law yield? What does the law make of us — and what does the law break in us?

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