Keynote: Democracy and Disrespect
Internationale Jahreskonferenz “Revolution, Reaktion, Restauration: Umbrüche normativer Ordnungen"
Donnerstag, 22. November 2018, 17 Uhr
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Campus Westend
Max-Horkheimer-Str. 2
Gebäude "Normative Ordnungen", EG 01 und EG 02
There are many diagnoses of a crisis of democracy today. The talk will critically examine some of them, and then focus on one in particular: the notion that a ‘populist wave’ — that is said to be deeply damaging for democracy — is caused in part by an increasing number of citizens feeling ‘disrespected.’ The talk will ask whether that claim is empirically correct; it will also ask what role, normatively, respect should play in a democracy, and whether there might be a legitimate place for disrespect in political conflict.
Prof. Dr. Jan-Werner Müller (Princeton University)
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Jan-Werner Müller is a professor of politics at Princeton University, where he also founded the Project in the History of Political Thought. His publications include What is Populism? (Penguin), which has been translated into 25 languages, Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe (Yale UP), and Constitutional Patriotism (Princeton UP). He is currently at work on a book about architecture and democracy.
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