Raeber
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Current research project
| Title / Titel | The Epistemology of Democracy and the Art of Democracy – Pragmatism’s Epistemic and Aesthetic Justifications of Democracy | ||
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| Summary / Zusammenfassung | Can democratic decision-making and representational-parliamentary democratic politics be justified in terms of their legitimacy due to their epistemic and aesthetic powers? I try to show that, in a qualified sense and not exclusively, this is possible. Epistemic justifications of democracy, as opposed to pure aggregative or pure deliberative justifications of democracy emphasize the knowledge-generating capacity of democracies. I construe a distinct version of an epistemic justification against the backdrop of the writings of Charles Peirce and John Dewey. Also based on Dewey (among others) I try to argue that democracy’s legitimacy furthermore normatively depends on acknowledging the “aesthetic gap” that exists between democracies’ representatives and the represented and on a notion of democratic citizenship that emphasizes the importance of self-determination in terms of self- and social criticism. | ||
| Keywords / Suchbegriffe | Epistemic Justifications of Democracy, Aesthetic Justifications of Democracy, Democratic Citizenship, Pragmatism, John Dewey, Charles Peirce | ||
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| Other links to external web pages | http://www.ethik.uzh.ch/afe/ma/Cheneval.html | ||
| Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch |
Universität Zürich (position pursuing an academic career) doctoral dissertation |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Oct 2011 to Oct 2015 |