The civil society effect revisited: on the politics of liberal philanthropy today

Title:

The civil society effect revisited: on the politics of liberal philanthropy today

Creator:

Walton, Jeremy F.

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:3d9a47d3-1626-4d25-8abb-97349ff48e35
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Subject:

Civil society, Islam, liberalism, philanthropy, and new authoritarianism

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Description:

In this essay, I reconsider the politics of contemporary philanthropy by navigating between two dominant ideological perspectives on civil society: depoliticization and demonization. I do so with reference to the recent tribulations of three famous magnate-philanthropists, Osman Kavala, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and George Soros. By revisiting my concept of the “civil society effect” – the romanticizing of civil society as a domain free from instrumental political motivations – I aim to shed light on the broader political terrain of contemporary capitalism, in which private capital is too easily understood as a neutral medium for political transformations. At the same time, I focus on the histories and genealogies that the depoliticization of civil society silences, especially the imperial legacies that opponents of liberal philosophy – new authoritarians such as Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán – frequently invoke with pugnacity.

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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Coverage:

131-137

Source:

Kontradikce: časopis pro kritické myšlení | 2019 Volume:3 | Number:2

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