The Europe in Us: Royalty and the Democracy-Spectacle
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Publisher: Polirom Year of publication: 2005 No. of pages: 240 ISBN: 973-46-0113-X |
The world today has divided itself, without being forced to do so by anyone, into those who give and those who are given lectures. On the one hand, often, brainlessness is a way of convincing yourself that you are free, whereas being respectful means being a gull; temperament is encouraged to replace common sense, as an exercise of freedom! In the gleam of our motley world, on a planet that is more than sixty per cent democratised, with deep tectonic movements (literally and figuratively), the chapters of this book reflect two realities: that of the author’s destiny, which has shifted from the world of the arts to that of the public stage (royalty, politics, defence etc.), as well as that of the reality of our world, which oscillates between democracy-spectacle and acts of heroism, between runaway freedom and terrorism, between (economic, psychological, affective and moral) corruption and visionary gestures.
