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| ISBN13: | 9780197645703 |
| ISBN10: | 0197645704 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 222 pages |
| Size: | 163x241x14 mm |
| Language: | English |
| 774 |
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Facing Authority
A Theory of Political Legitimacy
Publisher: OUP USA
Date of Publication: 20 December 2023
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Short description:
Political protest is often at least partially about the question of legitimacy. How can we distinguish whether a regime is legitimate, or merely purports to be so? In Facing Authority, Thomas Fossen develops a new philosophical approach to political legitimacy, interweaving analyses of key concepts (including representation, identity, and temporality) with examples of real-life struggles for legitimacy, from the German Autumn to the Arab Spring. Instead of asking "what makes authorities legitimate?" in the abstract, Fossen investigates how the question of legitimacy manifests itself in practice. The result is a pragmatist alternative to predominant moralist and realist approaches to legitimacy in political philosophy.
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Political protest is often at least partially about the question of legitimacy. How can we distinguish whether a regime is legitimate, or merely purports to be so?
In Facing Authority, Thomas Fossen develops a new philosophical approach to political legitimacy, interweaving analyses of key concepts (including representation, identity, and temporality) with examples of real-life struggles for legitimacy, from the German Autumn to the Arab Spring. Instead of asking "what makes authorities legitimate?" in the abstract, Fossen investigates how the question of legitimacy manifests itself in practice.
Facing Authority proposes that judging legitimacy is not simply a matter of applying moral principles, but of engaging in various forms of political contestation: over the representation of power (what is the nature of the regime?), collective selfhood (who am I, and who are we?), and the meaning of events (what happened here--a coup, or a revolution?). Fossen argues that these questions constitute the heart of the question of legitimacy, but thus far have been neglected by theorists of legitimacy. Compelling and original, Facing Authority is a pragmatist alternative to predominant moralist and realist approaches to legitimacy in political philosophy.
Against the move to provide criteria that justify the legitimacy of a regime, Fossen unveils a theory of political judgment that approaches legitimacy as an ongoing, open-ended, and intersubjective practice in which political subjects take a concrete and embodied stance toward a regime and its claim to authority. This book is easily the most compelling and perspicuous contribution to a theory of political judgment I have come across.
Political protest is often at least partially about the question of legitimacy. How can we distinguish whether a regime is legitimate, or merely purports to be so?
In Facing Authority, Thomas Fossen develops a new philosophical approach to political legitimacy, interweaving analyses of key concepts (including representation, identity, and temporality) with examples of real-life struggles for legitimacy, from the German Autumn to the Arab Spring. Instead of asking "what makes authorities legitimate?" in the abstract, Fossen investigates how the question of legitimacy manifests itself in practice.
Facing Authority proposes that judging legitimacy is not simply a matter of applying moral principles, but of engaging in various forms of political contestation: over the representation of power (what is the nature of the regime?), collective selfhood (who am I, and who are we?), and the meaning of events (what happened here--a coup, or a revolution?). Fossen argues that these questions constitute the heart of the question of legitimacy, but thus far have been neglected by theorists of legitimacy. Compelling and original, Facing Authority is a pragmatist alternative to predominant moralist and realist approaches to legitimacy in political philosophy.
Against the move to provide criteria that justify the legitimacy of a regime, Fossen unveils a theory of political judgment that approaches legitimacy as an ongoing, open-ended, and intersubjective practice in which political subjects take a concrete and embodied stance toward a regime and its claim to authority. This book is easily the most compelling and perspicuous contribution to a theory of political judgment I have come across.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: The Question of Legitimacy
1. Beyond Codification
2. Rethinking Legitimacy
3. Rethinking Judgment
Part Two: Judgment in the Face of Authority
4. Portraying Power
5. Legitimacy as an Existential Predicament
6. Judgment as Timecraft
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Part One: The Question of Legitimacy
1. Beyond Codification
2. Rethinking Legitimacy
3. Rethinking Judgment
Part Two: Judgment in the Face of Authority
4. Portraying Power
5. Legitimacy as an Existential Predicament
6. Judgment as Timecraft
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
