Notes
1
Crawford B. Macpherson, Democratic Theory: Essays in Retrieval (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973).
2
For more on this issue see Mike Davis, City of Quartz (New York: Vintage, 1992).
3
Pierre Bourdieu, Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998).
4
A reference to Sergio Leone’s film Once Upon a Time in America (1984).
5
Roland Barthes, Sur Racine (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1979).
6
Karl R. Popper, The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality, ed. M. A. Notturno (London and New York: Routledge, 1996).
7
Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (New York: Vintage, 1990).
Translated from the Arabic by Walid Sadek.
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