Format:
Online-Ressource (253 p)
ISBN:
9780231140720
Series Statement:
New Directions in Critical Theory
Content:
During 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 ou
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Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Judgment as a Paradigm; 2. Making Sense of the Exemplary; 3. The Exemplary and the Public Realm: Reconstructing the Normativity of the Reasonable; 4. Exemplifying the Worst: Facing up to Radical Evil; 5. Political Republicanism and the Force of the Example; 6. Exemplarity and Human Rights; 7. Enforcing Human Rights Between Westphalia and Cosmopolis; 8. Europe as a Special Area for Human Hope; 9. Religion Within the Limits of Reasonableness; Notes; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231511926
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231140720
Additional Edition:
Print version The Force of the Example : Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment
Language:
English
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