The Scandal of Reason : : A Critical Theory of Political Judgment / / Albena Azmanova.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:New Directions in Critical Theory ; 47
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The Scandal of Reason and the Paradox of Judgment
  • 1. Political Judgment and the Vocation of Critical Theory
  • 2. Critical Theory: PoliticalJudgment as Ideologiekritik
  • 3. Philosophical Liberalism: Reasonable Judgment
  • 4. Philosophical Liberalism and Critical Theory in Dispute
  • 5. Judgment Unbound: Arendt
  • 6. From Critique of Power to a Critical Theory of Judgment
  • 7. The Political Epistemology of Judgment
  • 8. The Critical Consensus Model
  • 9. Judgment, Criticism, Innovation
  • Conclusion: Letting Go of Ideal Theory
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index