The Normative and the Transformative in Ferrara's Exemplary Politics

Matthew Isaac Festenstein

The Normative and the Transformative in Ferrara's Exemplary Politics

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Abstract

In The Democratic Horizon and other works, Alessandro Ferrara offers an original theory of political judgment, exemplarity and political liberalism. This article examines two distinctive features of this theory, his accounts of the normativity of a Rawlsian form of political liberalism and of democratic openness or transformative politics. It is suggested that there are some tensions between his commitment to a judgment-centred epistemology and political liberalism.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	18-28
Number of pages	11
Journal	Jura Gentium
Volume	17
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2017

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