Demagogy
Abstract
The word “demagogy” presented offers a synthetic and panoramic approach to the definition, minimum characteristics and intellectual history of this notion. The word demagogy literally means: the art or technique of guiding or leading the people. This art and technique are studied in two different moments: a) the relationship between democracy and demagogy in Ancient Greece, and b) the renaissance of demagogy in the context of phenomena such as the manipulation of the masses and disenchantment with contemporary liberal democracies. In the final section, two different answers are offered to the demagogic dream: neoliberalism and republicanism.
doi: https://doi.org/10.20318/eunomia.2017.3649
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