The Constructivist Turn in Political Representation
Representation is an acknowledgment that the political order is a constructive enterprise. Politi... more Representation is an acknowledgment that the political order is a constructive enterprise. Political representation is made by free citizens who are unified by a representative person or claim around some ideas or goals and in view of competing for the majority and for having representative recognition. Representation is not a prerogative of the majority nor does its function end with the formation of a majority. The question that requires close analysis is whether constructivism is in itself democratic. In the paper I explore this conundrum and show what makes political representation a democratic form of constructivism. .
Ten years on from the publication of the annual La democrazia di fronte allo Stato edited by Ales... more Ten years on from the publication of the annual La democrazia di fronte allo Stato edited by Alessandro Pizzorno, recent events and tensions at national and international level the attention of scholars and public opinion on the challenges facing contemporary democracies today challenges facing contemporary democracies today. This fifty-third yearbook of the Feltrinelli Foundation now proposes an articulated reflection on the transformations that democracies are experiencing, and it does so through a rich critical analysis and significant and significant contributions, exploring paradoxes and democratic processes in different countries.
The theoretical interpretations of liberalism in its relations to multiculturalism occupy a centr... more The theoretical interpretations of liberalism in its relations to multiculturalism occupy a central role in contemporary political theory. Yet, although arguments of rights and equal respect have provided for reasonable justifications of cultural diversity, daily papers and political columns give us an image of democratic societies that is often intolerant, exclusionary and insensitive to the argument of rights when faced with cultural and religious pluralism. The diachronic rhythm between intellectual reasonableness and widespread opinion often goes unobserved in academic literature. In this chapter I dwell on this unobserved reality and call attention to the phenomenology of subordination that the failure to respect cultural diversity can generate or exacerbate. Relaying upon Alexis de Tocqueville’s analysis of the relationship between the “three races” in America, I render the phenomenology of subordination through the relationship between memory and forgetting and treat the latt...
The Constructivist Turn in Political Representation
Representation is an acknowledgment that the political order is a constructive enterprise. Politi... more Representation is an acknowledgment that the political order is a constructive enterprise. Political representation is made by free citizens who are unified by a representative person or claim around some ideas or goals and in view of competing for the majority and for having representative recognition. Representation is not a prerogative of the majority nor does its function end with the formation of a majority. The question that requires close analysis is whether constructivism is in itself democratic. In the paper I explore this conundrum and show what makes political representation a democratic form of constructivism. .
Ten years on from the publication of the annual La democrazia di fronte allo Stato edited by Ales... more Ten years on from the publication of the annual La democrazia di fronte allo Stato edited by Alessandro Pizzorno, recent events and tensions at national and international level the attention of scholars and public opinion on the challenges facing contemporary democracies today challenges facing contemporary democracies today. This fifty-third yearbook of the Feltrinelli Foundation now proposes an articulated reflection on the transformations that democracies are experiencing, and it does so through a rich critical analysis and significant and significant contributions, exploring paradoxes and democratic processes in different countries.
The theoretical interpretations of liberalism in its relations to multiculturalism occupy a centr... more The theoretical interpretations of liberalism in its relations to multiculturalism occupy a central role in contemporary political theory. Yet, although arguments of rights and equal respect have provided for reasonable justifications of cultural diversity, daily papers and political columns give us an image of democratic societies that is often intolerant, exclusionary and insensitive to the argument of rights when faced with cultural and religious pluralism. The diachronic rhythm between intellectual reasonableness and widespread opinion often goes unobserved in academic literature. In this chapter I dwell on this unobserved reality and call attention to the phenomenology of subordination that the failure to respect cultural diversity can generate or exacerbate. Relaying upon Alexis de Tocqueville’s analysis of the relationship between the “three races” in America, I render the phenomenology of subordination through the relationship between memory and forgetting and treat the latt...
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