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A Democratic Theory of Judgment

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Description for A Democratic Theory of Judgment Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
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 Douglas, John Rawls, J rgen 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
521g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226397986
SKU
V9780226397986
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About Linda M.G. Zerilli
Linda M. G. Zerilli is the Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill and Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.

Reviews for A Democratic Theory of Judgment
What is democratic political judgment? Does it require a standpoint of neutrality about normative truths? In this monumental work, Zerilli, combining both continental and analytic traditions in philosophy, gives a powerful case for the role of truth and objectivity in democratic political judgment, one attuned to the irreducible plurality of democratic societies. It is a vital contribution to what is ... Read more

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