Skepticism and political participation

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Skepticism and political participation

Aryeh Botwinick

Temple University Press, 1990

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Bibliography: p. 235-257

Includes index

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Aryeh Botwinick argues for the recovery of a radical democratic tradition that emphasizes the role of individual participation in the development and control of social and political institutions. Such involvement implies philosophical skepticism - the assumption that the truth about what is the best course of action cannot be known with certainty and that, therefore, every person's opinion has an equal claim to be considered. The crucial stumbling block to reappropriating this radical egalitarian tradition is the supposed unviability of a consistent skepticism. In an effort to chart a new course of philosophical inquiry into political matters, Botwinick grapples with the formulation of a consistent version of skepticism, claiming that it provides "a continually renewing impetus for the expansion of political participation." Twentieth-century philosophers have, for the most part, opted for some version of mitigated skepticism, which, the author argues, "has blinded them to the radical political implications of skepticism." Underscoring a pattern of convergence between Anglo-American and Continental philosophy, Botwinick proposes a number of strategies to rehabilitate the rationality of participatory democratic political institutions by articulating an acceptable version of consistent skepticism. Author note: Aryeh Botwinick, Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University, is the author of seven books, including Democracy and Scarcity.

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Introduction 1. A Neopragmatist Defense of Democratic Participation 2. The Political Implications of Wittgenstein's Skepticism 3. Participation and Tacit Knowledge in Plato, Machiavelli, and Hobbes 4. The Role of Tacit Knowledge in the Argument of Federalist Number Ten 5. Leadership, Knowledge, and Truth in Gramsci's Political Thought 6. Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Prospects of Postmodern Political Philosophy 7. Maimonides and Lyotard: Convergences between the Premodern and the Postmodern Notes Index

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