书目名称 | Knowing Democracy – A Pragmatist Account of the Epistemic Dimension in Democratic Politics |
编辑 | Michael I. Räber |
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概述 | Explores the scope and limits of the concept of epistemic democracy and shows the relevance of a normative and aesthetic understanding of democratic judgments.Establishes an original pragmatist concep |
丛书名称 | Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations |
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描述 | .How can we justify democracy’s trust in the political judgments of ordinary people? In .Knowing Democracy., Michael Räber situates this question between two dominant alternative paradigms of thinking about the reflective qualities of democratic life: on the one hand, recent epistemic theories of democracy, which are based on the assumption that political participation promotes truth, and, on the other hand, theories of political judgment that are indebted to Hannah Arendt’s aesthetic conception of political judgment. By foregrounding the concept of political judgment in democracies, the book shows that a democratic theory of political judgments based on John Dewey’s pragmatism can navigate the shortcomings of both these paradigms. While epistemic theories are overly and narrowly rationalistic and Arendtian theories are overly aesthetic, the neo-Deweyan conception of political judgment proposed in this book suggests a third path that combines the rationalist and the aesthetic elements of political conduct in a way that goes beyond a merely epistemic or a merely aesthetic conception of political judgment in democracy. The justification for democracy’s trust in ordinary people’s poli |
出版日期 | Book 2020 |
关键词 | Epistemic Dimension in Democratic Politics; Epistemic Performance of Democratic Decision- Making Proc |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53258-1 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-53260-4 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-53258-1Series ISSN 2352-8370 Series E-ISSN 2352-8389 |
issn_series | 2352-8370 |
copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 |