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458Political Representation from a Pragmatist Perspective: Aesthetic Democratic RepresentationContemporary Pragmatism 16 (1): 84-103. 2019.In this article I discuss the advantages of a theory of political representation for a prag- matist theory of (global) democracy. I first outline Dewey’s disregard for political rep- resentation by analyzing the political, epistemological and aesthetic underpinnings of his criticism of the Enlightenment ideal of democracy and its trust in the power of the detached gaze. I then show that a theory of political representation is not only com- patible with a pragmatist Deweyan-pragmatist perspective…Read more
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48Democratic freedom as an aesthetic achievement: Peirce, Schiller and Cavell on aesthetic experience, play and democratic freedomPhilosophy and Social Criticism 49 (3): 332-355. 2023.In this essay, I reconsider the constitution of democratic freedom in aesthetic terms. My interest is in articulating a conception of aesthetic freedom that can be mapped onto a conception of democratic freedom. For this purpose, I bring together Charles Sanders Peirce’s ontology, which comprises fragments of an aesthetic theory, Friedrich Schiller’s concept of aesthetic play and Stanley Cavell’s democratic perfectionism. By providing a philosophical framework for constructing an aesthetics and …Read more
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29In this paper, I discuss the importance of practices of disidentification and imagination for democratic progress and change. To this end, I bring together certain aspects of Stanley Cavell’s and Richard Rorty’s reflections on democracy, aesthetics, and morality with Jacques Rancière’s account of the importance of appearance for democratic participation. With Rancière, it can be shown that any public–political order always involves the possibility (and often the reality) of exclusion or oppressi…Read more
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20Stanley Cavell’s democratic perfectionism: community, individuality, and post-truth politicsContemporary Political Theory 1-4. forthcoming.
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15Book Review: Jan-Werner Müller, What is populism? (review)Political Studies Review 15 (4): 612-613. 2017.
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14Struggles Over Recognition Under Conditions of Hypervisibility: Honneth, Rancière, and Ellison on the Politics of PerceptionCritical Horizons 24 (4): 389-404. 2023.ABSTRACT This paper explores two emancipatory ways that the struggle over recognition can take under conditions of social invisibility and hyper-visibility: that of social visibilization, and that of a dialectical interplay between invisibility and visibility. The theories of recognition of Honneth and Rancière acknowledge that recognition is based on socially mediated perceptual processes that enable or prevent recognition: whether and how subjects become socially visible or remain invisible. F…Read more
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10Introduction: The Aesthetics and Politics of (In)VisibilityCritical Horizons 24 (4): 319-324. 2023.Social and political philosophers often speak of the “invisibility” of individuals and groups as a problem of social justice and emancipation when the interests, needs, and experiences of these ind...
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5Multikultureller LiberalismusIn Michael G. Festl (ed.), Handbuch Liberalismus, J.b. Metzler. pp. 385-392. 2021.Der Begriff „Multikulturalismus“ bezeichnet ein komplexes und vielfältiges Spektrum an philosophischen und politischen Ideen. Im Kern geht es bei dem Begriff um die Frage, wie man die Herausforderungen, die mit der kulturellen und religiösen Vielfalt in heutigen pluralistischen Gesellschaften verbunden sind, verstehen und darauf reagieren kann. Der zentrale Anspruch, der im Namen des Multikulturalismus erhoben wird, ist die aktive staatliche Anerkennung von Minderheitengruppen durch „group-diffe…Read more
Michael Ivo Räber
University of Lucerne
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University of LucerneSenior Lecturer
University of Zürich
PhD, 2016
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
American Pragmatism |
Critical Theory, Misc |
Aesthetics |
Political Theory |