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Theorising Noumenal Power - Rainer Forst and his Critics (Hardcover)
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Theorising Noumenal Power - Rainer Forst and his Critics (Hardcover)
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Theorising Noumenal Power is a critical engagement with Rainer
Forst's theory of what he calls "noumenal power." Forst is the most
significant younger generation critical theorist of the Frankfurt
School, and his critics include several of the most influential
contemporary political power theorists. The concept of noumenal
power locates the sources of social and political power in the
space of reasons or justifications - using a normatively neutral
account of "justification." To exercise power, on that account,
means to be able to determine, use, close or open up the space of
justifications for others. Going back to Kant, the social subject
is theorized as a reasoning being who confers legitimacy upon
political structures based upon the cognitive faculty of
justification. As argued by Max Weber, authority is the foundation
of political institutions and authority presupposes a belief in
legitimacy. On the one hand such beliefs can be distorted, as in
ideology, or they can be based upon a process of reasoned
justification relative to normatively desirable principles.
Critiquing the former, while building upon the latter, serves as
the foundation for theorising just democratic politic institutions.
For Forst's critics, a key theme is how to differentiate
ideological (bad) justification, typically based upon emotion, from
normatively right democratic reasoning. Other important themes are
the analysis of structural domination or the use of threats or
other means of exercising power. The debate in this volume
constitutes an exciting new way of re-thinking the foundations of
ideology, political power, democracy and justice. Providing a
state-of-the-art discussion concerning the relationship between
political power and justification Theorising Noumenal Power is
essential for students and scholars interested in the theoretical
foundations of political power, democracy and justice. The chapters
were originally published in the Journal of Political Power.
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