Relational liberalism : democratic co-authorship in a pluralistic world / Federica Liveriero.

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Relational liberalism : democratic co-authorship in a pluralistic world / Federica Liveriero.

9783031227431 (electronic bk.)
3031227433 (electronic bk.)
3031227425
9783031227424

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2023.

English

1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

10.1007/978-3-031-22743-1 doi

JC423

321.801

This book investigates the unresolved issue of democratic legitimacy in contexts of pervasive disagreement and contributes to this debate by defending a relational version of political liberalism that rests on the ideal of co-authorship. According to this proposal, democratic legitimacy depends upon establishing appropriate interactions among citizens who ought to ascribe to one another the status of putative practical and epistemic authorities. To support this relational reading of political liberalism, the book proposes a revised account of the civic virtue of reasonableness along with an investigation of the epistemic-specific dimension of political equality. By engaging with political epistemology and social theory, this book explores ways to address inherent tensions within the liberal paradigm, using the following strategies of addressing these tensions: first, it defends a twofold model of legitimacy that distinguishes the goals, methodologies, and justificatory tasks of both ideal and nonideal phases of the two-level justificatory framework; second, it contends that democratic legitimacy requires an engaged and contextual critical appraisal of the injustices that characterize our daily social lives, illustrating how structural forms of injustice represent a profound betrayal of the liberal ideal of democratic legitimacy.

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Philosophy and politics ; 24.

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