Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. 1. Democracy and the Problem of Judgment 1
6. 2. Judging at the “End of Reasons”: Rethinking the Aesthetic Turn 41
7. 3. Historicism, Judgment, and the Limits of Liberalism: The Case of Leo Strauss 83
8. 4. Objectivity, Judgment, and Freedom: Rereading Arendt’s “Truth and Politics” 117
9. 5. Value Pluralism and the “Burdens of Judgment”: John Rawls’s Political Liberalism 143
10. 6. Relativism and the New Universalism: Feminists Claim the Right to Judge 163
11. 7. From Willing to Judging: Arendt, Habermas, and the Question of ’68 184
12. 8. What on Earth Is a “Form of Life”? Judging “Alien” Cultures According to Peter Winch 208
13. 9. The Turn to Affect and the Problem of Judgment: Making Political Sense of the Nonconceptual 239
14. Conclusion: Judging as a Democratic World- Building Practice 262
15. Abbreviations 283
16. Notes 285
17. Index 369