From Critique of Power to a Critical Theory of Judgment
From Critique of Power to a Critical Theory of Judgment
This chapter lays out a larger analytical framework that accommodates a model of political judgment able to combine normative rigor with political cogency. It outlines the key dimensions of this framework in terms of its normative goals, the political ontology from which the analysis proceeds, the epistemology on which it grounds claims to validity, its level of analysis, its key methodological rule, and its thematic range. The hermeneutic level in the normative structure of society is also presented in terms of a “phronetic constitution of public reason.” This enables a model of judgment that focuses on shared notions of relevance in the thematization of injustice—the meeting point between instrumental and moral dimensions of political reasoning.
Keywords: political judgment, political reasoning, normative model, public reason, Critical Theory
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