Relational Liberalism (eBook)

Democratic Co-Authorship in a Pluralistic World

Federica Liveriero (Autor)

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2023 | 1st ed. 2023
XVI, 291 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-22743-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This book investigates the unresolved issue of democratic legitimacy in contexts of pervasive disagreement and contributes to this debate by defending a relational version of political liberalism that rests on the ideal of co-authorship. According to this proposal, democratic legitimacy depends upon establishing appropriate interactions among citizens who ought to ascribe to one another the status of putative practical and epistemic authorities. To support this relational reading of political liberalism, the book proposes a revised account of the civic virtue of reasonableness along with an investigation of the epistemic-specific dimension of political equality.

By engaging with political epistemology and social theory, this book explores ways to address inherent tensions within the liberal paradigm, using the following strategies of addressing these tensions: first, it defends a twofold model of legitimacy that distinguishes the goals, methodologies, and justificatory tasks of both ideal and nonideal phases of the two-level justificatory framework; second, it contends that democratic legitimacy requires an engaged and contextual critical appraisal of the injustices that characterize our daily social lives, illustrating how structural forms of injustice represent a profound betrayal of the liberal ideal of democratic legitimacy.

Federica Liveriero is Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Pavia. She received her Ph.D. in Political Theory from LUISS University (Rome) in 2013. She has held visiting positions at Boston College, at the University of California, San Diego, and at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She works on normative theories of justification and public reason; democratic theory; and political epistemology. Recent publications have appeared in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Social Epistemology, The Journal of Ethics. She published a monograph in Italian, Decisioni pubbliche e disaccordo (LUISS University Press, 2017), and she co-edited Democracy and Diversity (Routledge, 2018).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.2.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations
• Reihe/Serie: Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations
• Zusatzinfo: XVI, 291 p. 1 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Original-Titel: Decisioni pubbliche e disaccordo. Giustificazioni e compromessi tra pari epistemici.
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Adjudicative Role of Supreme Courts • Compromise for Democratic Decisions • Compromise in Non-ideal Circumstances • Deliberations over political matters • Epistemic Circumstances of Justice • epistemology of disagreement • Importance of reflective equilibrium in the Rawlsian framework • Justify Democratic Decisions • Nelson Goodman and the riddle of induction • Political Legitimacy and Disagreement • Public justification and the duty of civility • Reflective Equilibrium in the Real World • Same-sex marriage in the U.S. • Same-sex wedding cake case • Sceptical argument and the fallibilistic clause • Social virtue of reasonableness • Stability in the face of deep disagreement • Structural forms of injustice • Symbolic public space as a public good
• ISBN-10: 3-031-22743-3 / 3031227433
• ISBN-13: 978-3-031-22743-1 / 9783031227431