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By Mark Bahnisch on August 8, 2011
I intend to write on Erik Olin Wright’s important book Envisioning Real Utopias, but I thought it might be useful to make it a five part series, rather than the world’s longest blog post. I’d also like to have a [...]
Posted in Featured, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Charles Fourier, Enlightenment, envisioning realistic utopias, erik olin wright, Hayek, imaginary, John Locke, Marx, Marxism, neo-liberalism, philosophy, political philosophy, political theory, Popper, social change, social democracy, Sociology, Thomas Hobbes, utopia, utopian socialism |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 18, 2010
I had mixed feelings last night about whether to watch the canonisation ceremony for Blessed Mary MacKillop on ABC News 24. In part, but not exclusively, those feelings related to the way the ceremonies would be covered, and I’m afraid [...]
Posted in Australiana, Culture, Media, Politics, Religion, Sociology | Tagged abc news 24, abc religion and ethics, Australia, canonisation, Catholic Church, Catholicism, christopher hitchens, hagiography, Jeff Sparrow, John Locke, Julia Gillard, Leviathan, Mary Mackillop, Mary of the Cross, Media, miracles, Nationalism, new atheism, On Toleration, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, power, protestantism, Richard Dawkins, scott stephens, social justice, Thomas Hobbes, Tony Abbott |
By Kim on August 24, 2010
This thread is a companion piece to Mark’s post on how a Gillard minority government might ideally operate. The advice about parliamentary reform and processes of governance and policy formulation surely applies to both sides, so I’ve decided to vary [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Government | Tagged Coalition, Federal Election 2010, hung parliament, Independents, minority government, Thomas Hobbes, Tony Abbott |
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