Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Scandal of ReasonCondition: NewEAN: 9780231153812ISBN: 9780231153812Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/29/2021Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Albena AzmanovaLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: A Critical Theory of Political JudgmentISBN-10: 0231153813Description: Theories of justice are haunted by a paradox: the more ambitious the theory of justice, the less applicable and useful the model is to political practice; yet the more politically realistic the theory, the weaker its moral ambition, rendering it unsound and equally useless. Brokering a resolution to this "judgment paradox," Albena Azmanova advances a "critical consensus model" of judgment that serves the normative ideals of a just society without the help of ideal theory. Tracing the evolution of two major traditions in political philosophy—critical theory and philosophical liberalism—and the way they confront the judgment paradox, Azmanova critiques prevailing models of deliberative democracy and their preference for ideal theory over political applicability. Instead, she replaces the reliance on normative models of democracy with an account of the dynamics of reasoned judgment produced in democratic practices of open dialogues. Combining Hannah Arendt's study of judgment with Pierre Bourdieu's social critique of power relations, and incorporating elements of political epistemology from Kant, Wittgenstein, H. L. A. Hart, Max Weber, and American philosophical pragmatism, Azmanova centers her inquiry on the way participants in moral conflicts attribute meaning to their grievances of injustice. She then demonstrates the emancipatory potential of the model of critical deliberative judgment she forges and its capacity to guide policy making. This model's critical force yields from its capacity to disclose the common structural sources of injustice behind conflicting claims to justice. Moving beyond the conflict between universalist and pluralist positions, Azmanova grounds the question of "what is justice?" in the empirical reality of "who suffers?" in order to discern attainable possibilities for a less unjust world.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Law & PoliticsBook Series: New Directions in Critical TheoryTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Scandal of Reason
Title: The Scandal of Reason
EAN: 9780231153812
ISBN: 9780231153812
Release Date: 06/29/2021
Release Year: 2021
Subtitle: A Critical Theory of Political Judgment
ISBN-10: 0231153813
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Publication Name: Scandal of Reason : a Critical Theory of Political Judgment
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.1 in
Subject: History & Theory, International Relations / General, General, Political
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Author: Albena Azmanova
Item Length: 0.9 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Philosophy
Series: New Directions in Critical Theory Ser.
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback