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This book, published in 1962, presented politics as precious and specific, arising from accepting the simultaneous existence of different groups and interests within a governing territory. The speaker particularly admired the line emphasizing politics as involving genuine relationships with genuinely other people, not just objects for philanthropy.
In 1962, Bernard Crick, a political theorist and a Democratic Socialist, published this strange little book called In Defense of Politics.
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This book, published in 1962, presented politics as precious and specific, arising from accepting the simultaneous existence of different groups and interests within a governing territory. The speaker particularly admired the line emphasizing politics as involving genuine relationships with genuinely other people, not just objects for philanthropy.
In 1962, Bernard Crick, a political theorist and a Democratic Socialist, published this strange little book called In Defense of Politics.
Politics for Crick is something precious and specific. It, quote, arises from accepting the fact of the simultaneous existence of different groups, hence different interests and different traditions, within a territorial unit under common rule.
In my favorite line of his book, Crick writes, Politics involves genuine relationships with people who are genuinely other people. Not tasks set for our redemption or objects for our philanthropy. Genuine relationships with people who are genuinely other people.
He calls it a pearl beyond price. It writes, the moral consensus of a free state is not something mysteriously prior to or above politics. It is the activity, the civilizing activity of politics itself.