The Public on the Public: The British Public as Trust, Reflexivity and Political Foreclosure

by Claire Westall (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2015

  $58.96

  In Britain, the resistance to popular determination allowed by the financial construct of the public has been so successful that this term, public, must be re-read as politically paralyzing. The problem, our problem, is the public - which we are so often told will bring us together and provide for us - and it is this we must move beyond.