Democrazia e comparatistica nella società post-fattuale

The debate on democracy is essentially supported by ideas which are typically devel- oped in the field of social sciences, statistics, or, even worse, in the field of corporate engineering (if these can be actually considered proper “ideas”). The exclusion of hu- manistic knowledge from the debate on democracy is justified by a perpetual series of emergencies, which leads to an oversimplification of the issues at stake and confusion between truth and propaganda. The dismissal of all critical approaches to facts and truths, now addressed as a waste of time or a form of betrayal of the values on which the “Western Civilization” has established and preserved freedom, has been likely facilitated by the withdrawal of philological investigation and the dramatic surge of deconstructionist approaches which proclaim that facts and truths are nothing but cultural constructs.