Second Meeting: September 24, 2012

The second meeting for "Publics and Politics" will be held next Monday, September 24th, 2012 in J. Walter Wilson 302 at 7pm. Dinner will be provided. We will be discussing selections from John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (original edition, 1971) and Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public (1925). Readings are available over email and online here (log-in required).

  

Copies of John Dewey's The Public and Its Problems (1927), our reading for October 8th, will be distributed. We also hope to secure some dissertation presenters for upcoming weeks and finalize our meeting schedule. 

Last week's discussion of Locke and de Tocqueville raised some interesting questions about the origin of "feeling" or "desire" and the parameters of culture. We look forward, for next week, to a lively discussion of public opinion, intellect, and expectations of the individual for democratic political participation.