Review of Michael Räber, Knowing Democracy. A Pragmatist Account of the Epistemic Dimension in Democratic Politics

European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 13 (1) (2021)
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Democracy’s Trade-Off You are so stupid, I wouldn’t even trust you to watch my cat for five minutes. But I would fight for your right to vote. We all know people whom we deem unqualified to reason coherently and still we do not question universal suffrage. In Knowing Democracy – A Pragmatist Account of the Epistemic Dimension in Democratic Politics (Springer 2020), Michael Räber demonstrates that this contradiction is the center of the epistemic argument for democracy. Of course, he has a mor...

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Michael Festl
University of St. Gallen

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Democracy and Social Ethics.Jane Addams - 1902 - University of Illinois Press (2002). Edited by Charlene Haddock Seigfried.
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