Knowing Democracy – A Pragmatist Account of the Epistemic Dimension in Democratic Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Knowing Democracy – A Pragmatist Account of the Epistemic Dimension in Democratic Politics write by Michael I. Räber. This book was released on 2020-10-06. Knowing Democracy – A Pragmatist Account of the Epistemic Dimension in Democratic Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 political judgments, Räber argues, resides in an egalitarian conception of democratic inquiry that blends the epistemic and the aesthetic aspects of the making of political judgments. By offering a rigorous scholarly analysis of the epistemic and aesthetic foundations of democracy from a pragmatist perspective, Knowing Democracy contributes to the current debates in political epistemology and aesthetics and politics, both of which ask about the appropriate reflective and experiential circumstances of democratic politics. The book brings together for the first time debates on epistemic democracy, aesthetic judgment and those on pragmatist social epistemology, and establishes an original pragmatist conception of epistemic democracy.
Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics
Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics write by Anne Wagner. This book was released on 2023-11-03. Research Handbook on Legal Semiotics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive Research Handbook explores the wide variety of work conducted in legal semiotics to provide a broad understanding of how the law works through signs and symbols. Demonstrating that law is a strategical system of fluctuating signs, contributors critically analyse the ever-evolving conceptualisations of law and legal discourse.
Intercultural Spaces of Law
Intercultural Spaces of Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intercultural Spaces of Law write by Mario Ricca. This book was released on 2023-04-03. Intercultural Spaces of Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book proposes an interdisciplinary methodology for developing an intercultural use of law so as to include cultural differences and their protection within legal discourse; this is based on an analysis of the sensory grammar tacitly included in categorizations. This is achieved by combining the theoretical insights provided by legal theory, anthropology and semiotics with a reading of human rights as translational interfaces among the different cultural spaces in which people live. To support this use of human rights’ semantic and normative potential, a specific cultural-geographic view dubbed ‘legal chorology’ is employed. Its primary purpose is to show the extant continuity between categories and spaces of experience, and more specifically between legal meanings and the spatial dimensions of people’s lives. Through the lens of legal chorology and the intercultural, translational use of human rights, the book provides a methodology that shows how to make space and law reciprocally transformative so as to create an inclusive legal grammar that is equidistant from social cultural differences. The analysis includes: a critical view on opportunities for intercultural secularization; the possibility of construing a legal grammar of quotidian life that leads to an inclusive equidistance from differences rather than an unachievable neutrality or an all-encompassing universal legal ontology; an interdisciplinary methodology for legal intercultural translation; a chorological reading of the relationships between human rights protection and lived spaces; and an intercultural and geo-semiotic examination of a series of legal cases and current issues such as indigenous peoples’ rights and the international protection of sacred places.
The Epistemology of Resistance
The Epistemology of Resistance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Epistemology of Resistance write by José Medina. This book was released on 2013. The Epistemology of Resistance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the epistemic side of racial and sexual oppression. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from listening to each other.
Crises of Democracy
Crises of Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crises of Democracy write by Adam Przeworski. This book was released on 2019-09-26. Crises of Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the economic, social, cultural, as well as purely political threats to democracy in the light of current knowledge.
