The Noumenal Republic: Critical Constructivism After Kant

Cover
Title page
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Contents
Preface
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Introduction
	1 The idea of Kantian constructivism
	2 Discussion contexts and outline of the argument
Part I: Autonomy, Progress and Solidarity
	1  Noumenal Alienation
		1.1 Alienation and the inalienable
		1.2 Rousseau: Overcoming individual alienation through political aliénation totale
		1.3 Kantian alienation: On (not) being a normative authority
		1.4 Marxian alienation: Instrumentalization and lack of control
		1.5 Conclusion
	2  The Justification of Progress and the Progress of Justification*
		2.1 The dialectics of progress
		2.2 Moral–political progress
		2.3 Self-determined progress
		2.4 Emancipation, reverse orientalism and foundationalism
		2.5 Subaltern reason and the critique of historicism
		2.6 The right to reason
	3  The Rule of Unreason
		3.1 The crisis of democracy and the concept of regression
		3.2 Status quo (ante) fallacy
		3.3 The conceptual reduction of democracy
		3.4 Misclassified critiques of democracy
		3.5 Crises and the paradox of democratic regression
	4  Solidarity
		4.1 A contested and elusive concept
		4.2 The concept of solidarity
		4.3 Normative dependency
		4.4 Normative contexts and conceptions of solidarity
			4.4.1 Ethical contexts
			4.4.2 Legal contexts
			4.4.3 Political contexts
			4.4.4 Moral contexts
		4.5 Conclusion
	5  Social Cohesion
		5.1 Booms of cohesion
		5.2 A neutral core definition
		5.3 Tolerance, solidarity and cohesion
		5.4 Justification narratives and justice
		5.5 Social projects and crises
Part II: Justice, Rights and Non-Domination in a New Key
	6  Normativity and Reality
		6.1 Plato’s paradox
		6.2 The loss of a shared language in political science
		6.3 Justification as a mediating term
		6.4 The power of justifications
		6.5 Narratives, structures and reality
		6.6 A realistic normative view
		6.7 A strong normative program
		6.8 Critical Theory
		6.9 Inside and outside the cave
	7  The Point and Ground of Human Rights
		7.1 How to think about human rights
		7.2 The point of human rights
		7.3 The ground of human rights
		7.4 Constructing human rights
	8  A Critical Theory of Transnational (In-)Justice
		8.1 Critical realism
		8.2 Avoiding parochialism and cultural positivism
		8.3 Avoiding practice positivism
		8.4 A reflexive and discursive conception of justice
		8.5 Struggles for justice and the problem of universality
		8.6 Contexts of (in-)justice
		8.7 The nature of injustice
		8.8 Constructing transnational justice
	9  Structural Injustice with a Name, Structural Domination without a Face?*
		9.1 An antinomy
		9.2 (In-)justice
		9.3 Power, rule and domination
		9.4 The faces of structural domination
	10  Kantian Republicanism versus the Neo-Republican Machine
		10.1 Normative authority
		10.2 Moral groundwork
		10.3 The right to justification in political and legal contexts
		10.4 Two conceptions of non-domination and the neo-republican machine
		10.5 Republicanism and recognition
Part III: Debates
	11  Political Liberalism
		11.1 The familiar interpretation of Political Liberalism
		11.2 The problem of political liberalism
		11.3 Kantian constructivism in Political Liberalism
		11.4 The impossibility of a practice-dependent hermeneutics
		11.5 Toleration and reason
		11.6 Relating the political conception and comprehensive doctrines in the right way
		11.7 Ambiguities
	12  The Point of Justice
		12.1 The impossibility of overcoming moral arbitrariness in a morally arbitrary way
			12.1.1 Against pre-social considerations of (in-)justice
			12.1.2 Choice or circumstance?
			12.1.3 A dystopia of control
			12.1.4 Procedural distributive justice
		12.2 Two paradigms of justice
			12.2.1 Agents vs. recipients of justice
			12.2.2 Justice as justification
			12.2.3 Constructive autonomy
			12.2.4 Going further
	13  Justification Fundamentalism
		13.1 Moral justification
		13.2 Political justification
	14  The Autonomy of Autonomy
		14.1 Redemptive translation
		14.2 Moral autonomy and the autonomy of morality
		14.3 Moral “encouragement” after Kierkegaard and the Young Hegelians
Bibliography
Index
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