Receptivity, possibility, and democratic politics

Nikolas Kompridis

Abstract


In this paper I present a model of receptivity that is composed of ontological and normative dimensions, which I argue answer to the critical-diagnostic and to the possibility-disclosing needs of democratic politics. I distinguish between ‘pre-reflective receptivity,’ understood ontologically as a condition of intelligibility, and ‘reflective receptivity,’ understood normatively as a condition of disclosing new possibilities.

Keywords: receptivity; change; possibility; critique; reflective disclosure

(Published: 23 December 2011)

Citation: Ethics & Global Politics, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2011, pp. 255-272. DOI: 10.3402/egp.v4i4.14829


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