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Justice and Judgement is a comprehensive introduction to theories of judgement in contemporary political and moral philosophy. Ferrara offers a critical examination of the recent work of Rawls, Habermas, Ackerman, Michaelman and Dworkin.

Injustice --- Judgment (Ethics) --- Jugement (Ethique) --- Jugement moral --- Justice --- Justice (morale) --- Moral judgement --- Moreel oordeel --- Oordeel (Ethiek) --- Rechtvaardigheid --- Political science --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy --- Political philosophy --- Conduct of life --- Law --- Common good --- Fairness --- Moral judgment --- Ethics --- Justice. --- Political science - Philosophy.

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During the twentieth century, the view that assertions and norms are valid insofar as they respond to principles independent of all local and temporal contexts came under attack from two perspectives: the partiality of translation and the intersubjective constitution of the self, understood as responsive to recognition. Defenses of universalism have by and large taken the form of a thinning out of substantive universalism into various forms of proceduralism.Alessandro Ferrara instead launches an entirely different strategy for transcending the particularity of context without contradicting our pluralistic intuitions: a strategy centered on the exemplary universalism of judgment. Whereas exemplarity has long been thought to belong to the domain of aesthetics, this book explores the other uses to which it can be put in our philosophical predicament, especially in the field of politics. After defining exemplarity and describing how something unique can possess universal significance, Ferrara addresses the force exerted by exemplarity, the nature of the judgment that discloses exemplarity, and the way in which the force of the example can bridge the difference between various contexts.Drawing not only on Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment but also on the work of Hannah Arendt, John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, and Jürgen Habermas, Ferrara outlines a view of exemplary validity that is applicable to today's central philosophical issues, including public reason, human rights, radical evil, sovereignty, republicanism and liberalism, and religion in the public sphere.

Justice --- Judgment (Ethics) --- Political science --- Philosophy --- Justice. --- Philosophy. --- Political science - Philosophy

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Alessandro Ferrara explains what he terms 'the democratic horizon' - the idea that democracy is no longer simply one form of government among others, but is instead almost universally regarded as the only legitimate form of government, the horizon to which most of us look. Professor Ferrara reviews the challenges under which democracies must operate, focusing on hyperpluralism, and impresses a new twist onto the framework of political liberalism. He shows that distinguishing real democracies from imitations can be difficult, responding to this predicament by enriching readers' understanding of the spirit of democracy; clearing readers' views of pluralism from residues of ethnocentrism; and conceiving multiple versions of democratic culture, rooted in the diversity of civilizational contexts.

Democracy. --- Cultural pluralism --- Liberalism. --- Political sociology. --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Political science --- Sociology --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Liberty --- Social sciences --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Self-government --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Sociological aspects --- Cultural pluralism.

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Sovereignty --- Constituent power --- Liberalism

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"Alessandro Ferrara explains what he terms "the democratic horizon" - the idea that democracy is no longer simply one form of government among others, but is instead almost universally regarded as the only legitimate form of government, the horizon to which most of us look. Professor Ferrara reviews the challenges under which democracies must operate, focusing on hyperpluralism, and impresses a new twist onto the framework of political liberalism. He shows that distinguishing real democracies from imitations can be difficult, responding to this predicament by enriching readers' understanding of the spirit of democracy; clearing readers' views of pluralism from residues of ethnocentrism; and conceiving multiple versions of democratic culture, rooted in the diversity of civilizational contexts"--

Cultural pluralism --- Democracy --- Liberalism --- Political sociology