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Political liberalism revisited. A paradigm for liberal democracy in the 21st century
No full textIn this article by way of reply, the author responds to the challenging comments on The Democratic Horizon provided by Michelman, Benhabib, White, Scheuerman and Laden. In response to Michelman, some reflections are propounded (1) on the function of judicial review, in order to alleviate the tension between two understandings of the mandate of the highest interpreter of the constitution as aimed at remedying either an occlusion of democratic authorship or a shortfall of agreement, and (2) on the need to rethink how the authority of the supreme interpreter relates to the will of the people in a deeply changed historical context. In response to Benhabib, the author discusses the new limits of the accommodation of diversity in Fairburg, a fictional polity that expands the Rawlsian standard of ‘reasonable disagreement’, and defends the normative relevance and democratic credentials of his notion of ‘multivariate polity’. In response to White, after recalling the importance of putting the ‘democratic ethos’ at the center of a reflection on the democratic quality of complex societies where formal procedures often mask elitist substance, the author defends the ‘political, not metaphysical’ credentials of ‘openness’ (as well as of ‘exemplarity’ as the ‘upstream source’ of openness) and accepts a complementarity of ‘openness’ and ‘presumptive generosity’. In response to Scheuerman, the author restates his focus on the democratic ethos as a supplement to, not a replacement of, the reflection on democratic procedures and defends the conceptual diversity of governance from government. In response to Laden, the author highlights the diversity of contexts to which his own and Laden’s versions of ‘democratic justification’ are responding and defends a more moderate version of ‘openness’, which still keeps constitutional essentials and political values shielded from ongoing questioning. Finally, the author interprets the debate aroused by The Democratic Horizon as indicative of the persistent vitality of the Rawlsian legacy in the 21st century
«Uscita 22» e altre obiezioni. Contro la critica decostruzionista del soggetto
No full textDrawing on Rancière, Nancy, Blanchot, Agamben, Esposito, Bhabha and Seligman, the author reconstructs their ideas a) that the individual subject's agency can dispense with a unifying center of intentionality and b) that community consists of individuals and their differences, united by a common vulnerability. Against a) the author argues that without a volitional center that unifies the self 1) no imputability is possible; 2) the self cannot establish a practical relation with itself and direct its life; 3) the moral sentiments of pride, humility, love and hate become unintelligible. Against b) it is objected that community as theorized by decostructionists cannot be distinguished from the human condition as such or from randomly assembled groupings such as the passengers gathered at Gate 22
A Crypto-Liberalism of Collective Self-Restraint? : On H.Lindahl’s Authority and the Globalization of Inclusion and Exclusion
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