Democratizing Critique

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Kurt C. M. Mertel is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Sharjah and founding editor of the book series Insubordination(s). He is the author of Re-Thinking the Sociality of the Self: The Emancipatory Project of Being and Time, Volume 1.

Just Serrano-Zamora is a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the University of Barcelona. He has published on democratic theory, political epistemology, and social and political philosophy in journals including Contemporary Political Theory, Journal of Social Philosophy, and Constellations. He is the author of Democratization and Struggles Against Injustice (2021).

Gianfranco Casuso is Professor of Philosophy at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, where he also directs the Critical Theory Research Group. He received his PhD in Philosophy from Goethe University Frankfurt. He is an associate member of the research centre "Structural Change of Property," funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and based at the Universities of Jena and Erfurt, Germany.

Inhalt

Foreword Introduction Section I: Hermeneutics, the Social Sciences, and Democracy 1. Critical Theory and the Meaning of the Blues 2. The Inevitable Second-Person Perspective. On Bohman's Dialogic Renewal of Social Ontology Section II: Deliberative Democracy and its Challenges 3. How to Evaluate Deliberative Systems 4. Essay on "Artificial Intelligence" and "Human Nature": What are the Philosophical Challenges of AI? Section III: Critical Social Theory in a Democratic Society 5. Criticizing Democracy, Democratizing Critical Theory: A Brief Retrospective on James Bohman's work 6. Discourse Ethics as Applied Moral Inquiry 7. When does Critical Theory become Conspiracy Theory? Section IV: Deweyan Pragmatism, Inquiry, and Democratic Public 8. Social Criticism as the Foundation of Democracy Two Pragmatist Models and the Need to Generate Problems 9. Expressive Power, Social Conflicts, and Articulation Section V: Freedom, Republicanism, and Cosmopolitanism 10. Can Democracy Go Global? Remarks on James Bohman's Democracy Across Borders 11. Transnational Democracy and Transnational Feminism 12. Supranational Democracy: The Value of Empowering Outsiders 13. Global Football Fandom as a Sporting Mass Public: FIFA, Brand Activism, and the Democratic Stakeholder Governance Framework (DSGF)