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- Agné, Hans, 1970-, et al.
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Tiggarna en ödesfråga för EU
- 2014
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Ingår i: Göteborgsposten. - : Göteborgsposten. - 1103-9345. ; :23 maj
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Gottardis, Andreas, 1973-
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Reason and Utopia : Reconsidering the Concept of Emancipation in Critical Theory
- 2014
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- What does emancipation mean today? In political theory, the idea of emancipation has typically been understood as a process of rationalization involving the promotion of human rights or the historical overcoming of capitalism. However, in contemporary social criticism the earlier antagonism between liberalism and Marxism has largely been replaced by the conflict between Enlightenment thinking and Enlightenment critique. The tension between Enlightenment philosophy and Enlightenment skepticism can be taken as emblematic of the two main tendencies within contemporary critical thought. However, a similar ambivalence can be found in the classical critical theory of the so-called Frankfurt School. Given that we have to distinguish between two types of critical theoretical thought, is it even possible to answer the question about emancipation in an unambiguous way? The overall aim of this study is to examine the meaning of emancipation in contemporary critical thought. More specifically, the principal aim is to demonstrate that Jürgen Habermas’s critical theory can be understood as an attempt to overcome the opposition between the early and the late Frankfurt School in order subsequently to evaluate this attempt and thereby judge whether Habermas’s approach can serve as a key for combining the concepts of emancipation corresponding to these two types of critique. My main objection to Habermas’s reformulation of critical theory is that it is characterized by a lack of emancipatory potential and a lack of critical force. In trying to pave the way for an alternative approach, my strategy for accommodating the tensions between the two models of critical theory is to show that emancipation can be viewed as a process involving three disparate yet interconnected stages: an initial break in the continuity of history; a collective political struggle in order to realize the utopian vision thereby opened up; and, a possible understanding among the participants in a discourse.
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- Näsström, Sofia
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Cosmopolitics
- 2010
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Ingår i: Encyclopedia of Political Theory. - : Sage Publications.
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- Näsström, Sofia
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The Challenge of the All-Affected Principle
- 2011
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Ingår i: Political Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0032-3217 .- 1467-9248. ; 59:1, s. 116-134
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the recent turn to the all-affected principle as a means to determine the proper boundaries of the people. The popularity of the principle notwithstanding, it argues that many of its proponents are prone to underestimating the challenge it raises to contemporary political theory. More specifically, two claims are made. Firstly, it argues that we must distinguish between two principles which, while both relating to the question of people-making, do so under radically different conditions: the all-subjected principle and the all-affected principle. Secondly, it argues that while the all-affected principle is a popular device in debates on cosmopolitan democracy it does not have a singular meaning. The all-affected principle in fact has three distinct roles to play, those of diagnosing, generating and justifying the boundaries of the people. The latter is the most difficult to account for in so far as it draws proponents of the all-affected principle into the very conflict that they set out to assess. It is concluded that this circumstance calls for a reorientation of the current debate, both with regard to the characterisation of the conflict under consideration and the challenge it raises to contemporary political theory.
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- Näsström, Sofia
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The Normative Power of Political Equality
- 2013
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Ingår i: Political Equality in Transnational Democracy. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9781137369864 ; , s. 157-182
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Näsström, Sofia
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The Right to Have Rights : Democratic, Not Political
- 2014
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Ingår i: Political theory. - Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications. - 0090-5917 .- 1552-7476. ; 42:5, s. 543-568
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent years have witnessed an upsurge of political readings of the right to have rights. The gist of the argument is that this right only comes into being in the act of claiming or taking it. At the same time, the political reading suffers from a normative lacuna which is difficult to ignore if right is not to collapse into might. The present article seeks to show that this normative lacuna can be accounted for if one situates the political reading in relation to a certain form of government. Acknowledging Montesquieu’s influence on Arendt’s resort to the principles which guide political action, the article offers a new interpretation of the normative basis of the right to have rights. It argues, first, that this right is democratic, not political, and second, that the principle which sets the right in motion is responsibility, not freedom.
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