A democratic theory of judgment /
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...
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The University of Chicago Press,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Democracy and the problem of judgment
- Judging at the "end of reasons": rethinking the aesthetic turn
- Historicism, judgment, and the limits of liberalism: the case of Leo Strauss
- Objectivity, judgment, and freedom: rereading Arendt's "Truth and politics"
- Value pluralism and the "burdens of judgment": John Rawls's political liberalism
- Relativism and the new universalism: feminists claim the right to judge
- From willing to judging: Arendt, Habermas, and the question of '68
- What on earth is a "form of life"? Judging "alien" cultures according to Peter Winch
- The turn to affect and the problem of judgment: making political sense of the nonconceptual
- Conclusion: judging as a democratic world-building practice.
