Excess Words, Surplus Names: Rancière and Habermas on Speech, Agency, and Equality

Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Rancière treat speech as the medium for politics and, likewise, both diagnose the pathologies that follow from blockages on civic speech.  That said, these broad commonalities give rise to significant divides regarding the social ontology of language, the forms of power t...

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主要作者: Michael Feola
格式: Article
語言:English
出版: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2019-11-01
叢編:Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy
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在線閱讀:http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/889
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總結:Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Rancière treat speech as the medium for politics and, likewise, both diagnose the pathologies that follow from blockages on civic speech.  That said, these broad commonalities give rise to significant divides regarding the social ontology of language, the forms of power that attend linguistic exchange, and how speech informs democratic agency. Ultimately, the essay will argue that Rancière highlights the political deficits within deliberative commitments to democratic values. In doing so, his challenge yields broader insights for a democratic politics of speech and the linguistic resources that facilitate such a politics.
ISSN:2155-1162