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Alfred Moore, “Critical Elitism: Deliberation, Democracy, and the Problem of Expertise” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
New Books in Philosophy
Critical Elitism and Institutional Problems and Possibilities
I was unsure about using the term critical elitism but I ended up going with it in the end because I wanted to characterize something that is a relationship of inequality. And so that is a sort of essentially a kind of hierarchical relationship but to emphasize the way in which I imagine, I propose that critical judgment is essential to the production of that relationships. It also demands that we think about the institutional conditions that enable those kinds of reflective judgments. So how that took me at least towards a more, yeah, towards towards a set of institutional design questions I suppose.
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