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368Civil disobedience in a distorted public sphereKrisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy (3): 27-36. 2012.Rawls’s notion of civil disobedience, which still dominates the literature on this subject, comprises at least these three characteristics: it involves breaking the law, is non-violent and public. But implicit in this notion is a certain tension: it shows pessisimism about the proper functioning of the public sphere as earlier normal appeals have failed, but it also displays a certain optimism about its proper functioning as it assumes that civil disobedience may be effective. In my paper I argu…Read more
Martin Blaakman
Inholland University of Applied Sciences
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Inholland University of Applied SciencesSenior Researcher
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Areas of Specialization
Value Theory |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
History of Western Philosophy |