2. Normativity and Reality: Toward a Critical and Realistic Theory of Politics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction: In Search of Another Universalism 1
5. Part I Critique, Norm, and Utopia
6. 1. Benhabib and Habermas on Discourse and Development 19
7. 2. Normativity and Reality: Toward a Critical and Realistic Theory of Politics 36
8. 3. Loss of World, Not Certainty: “Amor Mundi” and the Moral Psychology of Seyla Benhabib 51
9. 4. Nature as a Concrete Other: An Alternative Voice in Kant’s Conception of Beauty and Dignity 67
10. 5. “To Burst Open the Possibilities of the Present”: Seyla Benhabib and Utopia 81
11. Part II Thinking With and Against Arendt
12. 6. “Thinking With and Against” as Feminist Political Theory 97
13. 7. Arendt and Truth 108
14. 8. Understanding Eichmann and Anwar: Reenactment and the Psychic Lives of Perpetrators 128
15. Part III Democratic Iterations and Cosmopolitanism
16. 9. Democracy Without Shortcuts: An Institutional Approach to Democratic Legitimacy 151
17. 10. Another Republicanism: Dissent, Institutions, and Renewal 166
18. 11. Three Models of Communicative Cosmopolitanism 193
19. 12. At the Borders of the Self: Democratic Iterations as a Theory of Postnational Sovereignty 214
20. Part IV Jurisgenerativity
21. 13. Back to the Future? Critical Theory and the Law 241
22. 14. The Unfinished Revolution: The Right to Have Rights and Birthright Citizenship 254
23. 15. Genocide and Jurisgenesis 277
24. 16. Jurisgenerativity in the Age of Big Data 294
25. Part V Deprovincializing Critical Theory
26. 17. Pachamama’s Rights, Climate Crisis, and the Decolonial Cosmos 309
27. 18. What Is the Other in Seyla Benhabib’s Another Cosmopolitanism? 328
28. 19. Border Deaths as Forced Disappearances: Frantz Fanon and the Outlines of a Critical Phenomenology 335
29. 20. Gender Trouble: Manhood, Inclusion, and Justice in the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. 366
30. Part VI Philosophy and Friendship
31. 21. Fragments of an Intellectual Autobiography 405
32. 22. Swimming 417
33. Contributors 427
34. Index 429