A Democratic Theory of Judgment / / Linda M. G. Zerilli

• Autore: Zerilli Linda M. G.
• Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (401 pages)
• Disciplina: 320.019
• Soggetto topico: Judgment - Political aspects; Judgment; Democracy - Philosophy
• Soggetto non controllato: Hannah Arendt; Ludwig Wittgenstein; critique of judgment; democratic theory; feminist theory; judgment
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Democracy and the Problem of Judgment -- 2. Judging at the "End of Reasons": Rethinking the Aesthetic Turn -- 3. Historicism, Judgment, and the Limits of Liberalism: The Case of Leo Strauss -- 4. Objectivity, Judgment, and Freedom: Rereading Arendt's "Truth and Politics" -- 5. Value Pluralism and the "Burdens of Judgment": John Rawls's Political Liberalism -- 6. Relativism and the New Universalism: Feminists Claim the Right to Judge -- 7. From Willing to Judging: Arendt, Habermas, and the Question of '68 -- 8. What on Earth Is a "Form of Life"? Judging "Alien" Cultures According to Peter Winch -- 9. The Turn to Affect and the Problem of Judgment: Making Political Sense of the Nonconceptual -- Conclusion: Judging as a Democratic World- Building Practice -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this sweeping look at political and philosophical history, Linda M. G. Zerilli unpacks the tightly woven core of Hannah Arendt's unfinished work on a tenacious modern problem: how to judge critically in the wake of the collapse of inherited criteria of judgment. Engaging a remarkable breadth of thinkers, including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Leo Strauss, Immanuel Kant, Frederick Douglass, John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas, Martha Nussbaum, and many others, Zerilli clears a hopeful path between an untenable universalism and a cultural relativism that forever defers the possibility of judging at all. Zerilli deftly outlines the limitations of existing debates, both those that concern themselves with the impossibility of judging across cultures and those that try to find transcendental, rational values to anchor judgment. Looking at Kant through the lens of Arendt, Zerilli develops the notion of a public conception of truth, and from there she explores relativism, historicism, and universalism as they shape feminist approaches to judgment. Following Arendt even further, Zerilli arrives at a hopeful new pathway-seeing the collapse of philosophical criteria for judgment not as a problem but a way to practice judgment anew as a world-building activity of democratic citizens. The result is an astonishing theoretical argument that travels through-and goes beyond-some of the most important political thought of the modern period.
• Titolo autorizzato: A Democratic Theory of Judgment
• ISBN: 0-226-39803-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154289103321
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