By Aletta J. Norval
The twenty-first century has introduced a renewed curiosity in democratic thought and practices, making a advanced dating among time-honoured democratic traditions and new types of political participation. Reflecting in this interaction among culture and innovation, Aletta J. Norval deals clean insights into the worldwide complexities of the formation of democratic subjectivity, the tricky emergence and articulation of political claims, the structure of democratic family among electorate and the deepening of our democratic mind's eye. Aversive Democracy attracts thought from a serious engagement with deliberative and post-structuralist types of democracy, when delivering a particular analyzing encouraged by way of modern paintings at the later Wittgenstein. it is a artistic and insightful paintings which reorients democratic idea, elucidating the nature of the commitments we have interaction in once we perform democratic existence jointly.
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This means that ‘consensual will formation’ should not be understood as the outcome of one conversation but must be seen as the cumulative product of many criss-crossing conversations over time. 61 62 Chambers, Reasonable Democracy, p. 196. Chambers, Reasonable Democracy, p. 170. I return to the question as to what precisely is meant by ‘being swayed by arguments’ and the ‘force of the better argument’ in Chapter 2. d e m o c r a c y, u n i v e r s a l i za t i o n a nd ( d i s ) a g r e e m e n t As Chambers’ argument shows, the move to actual argumentation entails a considerable weakening of the claims advanced by Habermas (even though Chambers does not focus on these consequences of her argument).
61 Nevertheless, this acknowledgement does not lead her to investigate actual processes of political argumentation, or the different kinds of argumentation in which one may engage. I will argue that both of these dimensions need to be explored in full if the full consequences of her modifications are to be pursued. 62 This, she points out, happens over time. People often re-evaluate their positions between conversations rather than during them. This gradual, fragmentary process of becoming ‘convinced of something’ is the product of a web of conversational interaction that includes many exchanges.
If this is the case, 1 2 3 L. M. Sanders, ‘Against deliberation’, Political Theory 25, no. 3 (1997), 347. L. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, trans. G. E. M. Anscombe (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984), § 115. For a consideration of speed in contemporary life, see W. E. Connolly, ‘Speed, concentric cultures, and cosmopolitanism’, Political Theory 28, no. 5 (2000), 596–618. d e m o c r a c y, u n i v e r s a l i za t i o n a nd ( d i s ) a g r e e m e n t what role does disagreement play in democratic discourse?
