LEADER 04287nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910825657503321 005 20230124190520.0 010 $a0-231-51192-2 024 7 $a10.7312/ferr14072 035 $a(CKB)2670000000241589 035 $a(EBL)908387 035 $a(OCoLC)818855902 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000713769 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12348814 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000713769 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10659068 035 $a(PQKB)11054161 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908387 035 $a(DE-B1597)458844 035 $a(OCoLC)1013947527 035 $a(OCoLC)1029821472 035 $a(OCoLC)1032679630 035 $a(OCoLC)1037981395 035 $a(OCoLC)1042020016 035 $a(OCoLC)1046606569 035 $a(OCoLC)1047008472 035 $a(OCoLC)1049655312 035 $a(OCoLC)1054876326 035 $a(OCoLC)979776387 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231511926 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908387 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10598900 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000241589 100 $a20071114d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe force of the example $eexplorations in the paradigm of judgment /$fAlessandro Ferrara 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (253 p.) 225 0 $aNew directions in critical theory 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-14072-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Judgment as a Paradigm -- $t2. Making Sense of the Exemplary -- $t3. The Exemplary and the Public Realm: Reconstructing the Normativity of the Reasonable -- $t4. Exemplifying the Worst: Facing up to Radical Evil -- $t5. Political Republicanism and the Force of the Example -- $t6. Exemplarity and Human Rights -- $t7. Enforcing Human Rights Between Westphalia and Cosmopolis -- $t8. Europe as a Special Area for Human Hope -- $t9. Religion Within the Limits of Reasonableness -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aDuring the twentieth century, the view that assertions and norms are valid insofar as they respond to principles independent of all local and temporal contexts came under attack from two perspectives: the partiality of translation and the intersubjective constitution of the self, understood as responsive to recognition. Defenses of universalism have by and large taken the form of a thinning out of substantive universalism into various forms of proceduralism. Alessandro Ferrara instead launches an entirely different strategy for transcending the particularity of context without contradicting our pluralistic intuitions: a strategy centered on the exemplary universalism of judgment. Whereas exemplarity has long been thought to belong to the domain of aesthetics, this book explores the other uses to which it can be put in our philosophical predicament, especially in the field of politics. After defining exemplarity and describing how something unique can possess universal significance, Ferrara addresses the force exerted by exemplarity, the nature of the judgment that discloses exemplarity, and the way in which the force of the example can bridge the difference between various contexts. Drawing not only on Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment but also on the work of Hannah Arendt, John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, and Jürgen Habermas, Ferrara outlines a view of exemplary validity that is applicable to today's central philosophical issues, including public reason, human rights, radical evil, sovereignty, republicanism and liberalism, and religion in the public sphere. 410 0$aNew Directions in Critical Theory 606 $aJustice 606 $aJudgment (Ethics) 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 615 0$aJustice. 615 0$aJudgment (Ethics) 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 676 $a320.01 700 $aFerrara$b Alessandro$f1953-$0120349 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825657503321 996 $aThe force of the example$93913156 997 $aUNINA