The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment

Alessandro Ferrara

June, 2008
Cloth, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14072-0
$40.00 / £27.50

Preface

Introduction

1. Judgment as a Paradigm

2. Making Sense of the Exemplary

3. The Exemplary and the Public Realm: Reconstructing the Normativity of the Reasonable

4. Exemplifying the Worst: Facing up to Radical Evil

5. Political Republicanism and the Force of the Example

6. Exemplarity and Human Rights

7. Enforcing Human Rights Between Westphalia and Cosmopolis

8. Europe as a Special Area for Human Hope

9. Religion Within the Limits of Reasonableness

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Analytic Philosophy
• Political Philosophy

Series

• New Directions in Critical Theory

About the Author

Alessandro Ferrara, professor of philosophy at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and member of the advisory board for the series New Directions in Critical Theory, is the author of Modernity and Authenticity: A Study of the Social and Ethical Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reflective Authenticity: Rethinking the Project of Modernity, and Justice and Judgment: The Rise and the Prospect of the Judgment Model in Contemporary Political Philosophy.

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