Philosophy Today

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published on November 25, 2020

Dimitris Vardoulakis

The Three Apples
Agonistic Democracy in the Age of Calculation

From the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11, agonistic democracy promised to navigate away from both liberalism and dialectical materialism. How can we renew that discourse to highlight its significance in the times of COVID-19? I answer this question by looking at three articulations of the apple metaphor.