Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory最新文献

{"title":"Arendt, Weil, and the Dissolution of Political Temporalities in Late Capitalism","authors":"Peli Meir","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12811","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 4","pages":"557-566"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145695434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Aesthetics of Democratic Power: Sensibility, Normativity, and the Sublime","authors":"Stephen K. White","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12806","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Many today believe that our aesthetic-affective sensibility can enliven our thinking and thus enhance our capacity to perceive how existing attitudes, practices, and institutions may be undermining the imagination of a better political world.1 However, when we ponder such an admirable role for our sensibility, this also tends to reawaken a venerable concern in political theory: in according a substantial a role to affect and imagination, we may be undermining the role of normative reason and thereby implicitly legitimating dangerous forms of collective power. In Western history, this concern has taken a multitude of forms from the 16th century until today. In the period of the English Civil War, the more radically democratic revolutionaries came to be excoriated for embracing a dangerous “enthusiasm,” whereby religious belief, instead of providing restraint, was fused with vivid imagination envisioning radically new possibilities for political power, something critics saw as fomenting protracted violence and fanatical behavior.2 In the 20th century, it was the secular myths of fascism that fired popular imagination in many countries. This concern is hardly remote today, as right-wing populism flourishes in a variety of democratic societies. Given this extensive and unsettling background, we today face a situation where we seem to be moved simultaneously to admit a greater role for aesthetic-affective sensibility in political life and yet also deeply question it. How should we begin to get our bearings in these cross currents?</p><p>In recent years, many of the issues surrounding sensibility have been gathered under the term social or political “imaginary,” with this meaning something like how figures of the imagination intertwine with explicit political orientations.3 But the increasing acceptance of the force of imaginaries is usually not followed by reflection on how they <i>ought</i> to be related to normative ideals we wish to explicitly affirm. I want to cut into this knot of issues. How should the features of a political imaginary or mythic resonate with ideals reflecting a more rational normative basis? And, more particularly, how does a fuller acknowledgement of a role for our aesthetic-affective figurations avoid the dangers noted above? In other words, can we conceive of an imaginary of political power whose cultivation encourages, rather than undermines, the core associations and ideals of democracy?</p><p>Crucial to any such exploration is an aesthetic-affective notion traditionally tied to democracy, namely, the sublime.4 Since the 18th century, sublimity has been associated with an elevating enthusiasm for vehement collective action animated by the grand ideals underlying the revolutionary emergence of democratic power. Section 1 provides a brief historical overview of this connection, focusing specifically on how Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant unpacked its character. This background is necessary not just for contextual reasons, ","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 2","pages":"264-272"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8675.12806","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144520126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Agonism and the Sublimation of Antagonism","authors":"Connor Moran","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12805","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 4","pages":"623-633"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145695435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rethinking Political Myth, Unpacking the Settler–Colonial Dream of an “American Arcadia”","authors":"Chiara Bottici","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12812","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 2","pages":"321-329"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144520125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Animism and Reification in Contemporary Theory: A Defense of New Humanism1","authors":"Frédéric Vandenberghe","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12803","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 4","pages":"645-654"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145695474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Democracy despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy","authors":"Stefan Rummens","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12798","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 3","pages":"547-549"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145101931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Eco-Emancipation: An Earthly Politics of Freedom pp. 224. $35.00 (Hardcover) $22.95 (Paperback). ISBN: 9780691242279.","authors":"Rebecca Marwege","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12801","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 2","pages":"373-374"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144519666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reflexivity Beyond Identity: The Premises, Promises and Problems of Participatory Research for Critical Theorizing","authors":"Sabine Flick,&nbsp;Katharina Hoppe","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12800","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the field of feminist methodology, participatory research designs are a means of choice to adequately involve affected groups of people and to conduct research as critical intervention. This article tackles this form of academic knowledge production and discusses how such positioned knowledge can be characterized more precisely in relation to participatory research designs. By discussing the epistemological premises of feminist participatory research in feminist standpoint theory, the article identifies a problem with identity-based reflexivity that it distinguishes from a reflexivity that focuses on the careful analysis of power relations. The article points out four problems participatory research designs need to confront in order not to be paternalistic and to uphold the necessary openness of every critical research process: The problem of immunization by calls for identity-based reflexivity; an insufficient capability to be irritated in the course of the research process; a danger of epistemological paternalism; and the problematic promise of “useful” research. It closes by pointing out the problems and potentials for critical theorizing informed by participatory research.</p>","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 3","pages":"517-526"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8675.12800","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145100894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Deliberative Theory for Re-Focusing the Concept, Measurement, and Analysis of Substantive Reasons in Political Discussions","authors":"Rousiley C. M. Maia,&nbsp;Tariq Choucair,&nbsp;Gabriella Hauber,&nbsp;Leonardo Santa Inês","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12795","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Based on theories of deliberative democracy, this article explores the substantive content of reasons as a conceptual tool. Although most studies focus on procedural dimensions, we argue that identifying and mapping substantive reasons contributes to advancing empirical investigation in a theoretically informed and normatively relevant way. More precisely, using a typology of reasons contributes to: (i) systematically tracking agreements and disagreements on controversial political issues and better understanding the complexities of political judgments, in a more nuanced and quantifiable description; (ii) deal with some contemporary methodological challenges to understand reciprocity and reflexivity; and (iii) explore disrespectful and undemocratic commitments in argumentation. In this context, we draw implications for broadening research at a macro-level or systemic analysis. To elucidate the practical feasibility of the proposed measure, we offer examples of operationalization in different research designs and ways of engaging in rich and historically based explanations.</p>","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 3","pages":"503-516"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8675.12795","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145100906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Depression, Critique, and Critical Theory as Political Therapy","authors":"Jasper Friedrich","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12797","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Critical theorists, especially in the Frankfurt School tradition, claim that normative thought and critique arise from experiences of suffering and oppression. It seems intuitive that oppression sometimes makes people sad and angry in ways that motivate critique and resistance; yet, other times, it leads to debilitating experiences of depression, resignation, and self-blame. Especially, in the context of our contemporary “mental health epidemic,” it is worth asking whether and how critique and resistance could possibly spring from such experiences. This paper therefore investigates the potential for experiences of depression to disclose social injustice. Drawing on phenomenological accounts of depression, I argue that it is best understood as consciousness of one's alienation from the social world—and under the right conditions, this consciousness can become politicized and lead to critique. Critical theory, here, can play a crucial role as a form of “political therapy” that supplies the hermeneutical tools for this politicization.</p>","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"32 3","pages":"464-475"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8675.12797","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145100917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}