The Dead Philosophers Society

“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.”
John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory, 1936

Only the dead are admitted to this society. Each text asks what a philosopher thought, how his ideas live on in today’s politics and what of them holds. The living and the advisers at the centre of power are covered by the sister series “The Conductors of the Leaders”.