Normative Recursion : on Recursive Grounding and the Capacity for Radical Critique in Formal Pragmatics, Recognition, Social Freedom and Justification
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Summary, in English
This thesis asserts that the necessary property of such a concept is recursion. That is, the property of a self-referentiality that allows for something to hierarchically contain copies of itself. The idea of finding the property of recursion in normative political theory and defending its utility is undertheorized in the political theory literature. By locating the property of recursion in the formal pragmatics of Jürgen Habermas, in Axel Honneth’s concepts of recognition and social freedom and in Rainer Forst’s concept of justification, this thesis remedies this situation. In doing so, a space is carved out for normative political theory between foundationalism and anti-foundationalism and between the utopian and realist approach.
Department/s
Publishing year
2021-04-23
Language
English
Publication/Series
Lund Political Studies
Volume
202
Issue
202
Full text
Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Lund University
Topic
- Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
Keywords
- Formal Pragmatics
- Recognition
- Social Freedom
- Justification
- Recursion
- Normative Validity Surplus
- Critique
- Reconstruction
- Normative Foundations
- Jürgen Habermas
- Axel Honneth
- Rainer Forst
Status
Published
Supervisor
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0460-0037
- ISSN: 0460-0037
- ISBN: 978-91-7895-840-5
- ISBN: 978-91-7895-839-9
Defence date
21 May 2021
Defence time
13:15
Defence place
Online, LU Zoom meeting: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/69296771864
Opponent
- Lars Tönder (Professor)