Skepticism and Political Participation - Hardcover

Botwinick, Aryeh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877226571 ISBN 13: 9780877226574

Verlag: Temple University Press,U.S., 1990

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Aryeh Botwinick argues for the recovery of a radical democratic tradition that emphasizes the role of individual participation in the development and control of social and political institutions. Such involvement implies philosophical skepticism—the assumption that the truth about what is the best course of action cannot be known with certainty and that, therefore, every person’s opinion has an equal claim to be considered. The crucial stumbling block to reappropriating this radical egalitarian tradition is the supposed unviability of a consistent skepticism. In an effort to chart a new course of philosophical inquiry into political matters, Botwinick grapples with the formulation of a consistent version of skepticism, claiming that it provides "a continually renewing impetus for the expansion of political participation."

Twentieth-century philosophers have, for the most part, opted for some version of mitigated skepticism, which, the author argues, "has blinded them to the radical political implications of skepticism." Underscoring a pattern of convergence between Anglo-American and Continental philosophy, Botwinick proposes a number of strategies to rehabilitate the rationality of participatory democratic political institutions by articulating an acceptable version of consistent skepticism.

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Aryeh Botwinick, Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University, is the author of seven books, including Democracy and Scarcity, Power and Empowerment: A Radical Theory of Participatory Democracy (with Peter Bachrach), and Postmodernism and Democratic Theory.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0877226571
• ISBN 13: 9780877226574
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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