Overview
- Brings together political theory, epistemology and critical analysis in dealing with deep political disagreement
- Defends a relational version of political liberalism that rests on the ideal of co-authorship
- Sheds light on the epistemic dimension of political equality that has been mostly overlooked
Part of the book series: Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations (PPCE, volume 24)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Political Legitimacy and Disagreement
- Same-sex marriage in the U.S.
- Justify Democratic Decisions
- Stability in the face of deep disagreement
- Epistemic Circumstances of Justice
- Adjudicative Role of Supreme Courts
- Sceptical argument and the fallibilistic clause
- Epistemology of Disagreement
- Reflective Equilibrium in the Real World
- Social virtue of reasonableness
- Nelson Goodman and the riddle of induction
- Importance of reflective equilibrium in the Rawlsian framework
- Deliberations over political matters
- Public justification and the duty of civility
- Symbolic public space as a public good
- Same-sex wedding cake case
- Compromise in Non-ideal Circumstances
- Structural forms of injustice
- Compromise for Democratic Decisions
About this book
This book investigates the unresolved issue of democratic legitimacy in contexts of pervasive disagreement and contributes to this debate by defending a relational version of political liberalism that rests on the ideal of co-authorship. According to this proposal, democratic legitimacy depends upon establishing appropriate interactions among citizens who ought to ascribe to one another the status of putative practical and epistemic authorities. To support this relational reading of political liberalism, the book proposes a revised account of the civic virtue of reasonableness along with an investigation of the epistemic-specific dimension of political equality.
By engaging with political epistemology and social theory, this book explores ways to address inherent tensions within the liberal paradigm, using the following strategies of addressing these tensions: first, it defends a twofold model of legitimacy that distinguishes the goals, methodologies, and justificatory tasks of both ideal and nonideal phases of the two-level justificatory framework; second, it contends that democratic legitimacy requires an engaged and contextual critical appraisal of the injustices that characterize our daily social lives, illustrating how structural forms of injustice represent a profound betrayal of the liberal ideal of democratic legitimacy.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Federica Liveriero is Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Pavia. She received her Ph.D. in Political Theory from LUISS University (Rome) in 2013. She has held visiting positions at Boston College, at the University of California, San Diego, and at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She works on normative theories of justification and public reason; democratic theory; and political epistemology. Recent publications have appeared in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Social Epistemology, The Journal of Ethics. She published a monograph in Italian, Decisioni pubbliche e disaccordo (LUISS University Press, 2017), and she co-edited Democracy and Diversity (Routledge, 2018).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Relational Liberalism
Book Subtitle: Democratic Co-Authorship in a Pluralistic World
Authors: Federica Liveriero
Series Title: Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22743-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22742-4Published: 15 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22745-5Published: 16 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-22743-1Published: 14 February 2023
Series ISSN: 2352-8370
Series E-ISSN: 2352-8389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 291
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Philosophy, Democracy, Social Philosophy, Political Theory, Philosophy of Law