The article addresses the question of the conditions and perspectives of democracy, and then analyses the thesis about the crisis of democracy employing categories and concepts developed by the Praxis philosophy. The author concludes that interpreting democracy as praxis - free and creative activity in everyday life - and not as a prefabricated institutional design results in a rejection of thesis about the crisis of democracy. In spite of the development and enhancement of (direct) democracy in recent years, we interpret the crisis of the current economic paradigm and etatism already as a crisis of democracy itself. This is, according to the author, the best possible confirmation of the myopia in our (mis)understandings of democracy, and why we are still searching for it precisely where we are least likely to find it.
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