Gregory Laski, “Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress after Slavery” (Oxford UP, 2018)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast · Jan 15, 2018 · 48m

Gregory Laski approaches the concept of democracy in his text, Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress after Slavery (Oxford University Press, 2018) from a variety of dimensions and perspectives, integrating the concept of temporality to considerations of liberty and justice within an analysis of American political thought and history, especially in the period following the Civil War. Laski’s complex and sophisticated text will have great appeal to political theorists and political philosophers as well as scholars of American political development and American letters and literature…