Alterity · intimate enemies of democracy
Three planes of the relation with the other — axiological, praxeological, epistemic — and the difference between sacrifice and massacre. Democracy’s enemies are intimate: they grow from its own values pushed beyond measure, ultraliberalism among them.
Gives the “who counts” coding layer: hierarchy, assimilation, recognition; exclusion versus a plurinational neutral point. Names the ideological pathology the thesis called dominant reasonableness.
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