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Capitalism on Edge

How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia

By: Albena Azmanova

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Capitalism on Edge

How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia

By: Albena Azmanova

The wake of the financial crisis has inspired hopes for dramatic change and stirred visions of capitalism’s terminal collapse. Yet capitalism is not on its deathbed, utopia is not in our future, and revolution is not in the cards. In Capitalism on Edge, Albena Azmanova demonstrates that radical progressive change is still attainable, but it must come from an unexpected direction. Azmanova’s new critique of capitalism focuses on the competitive pursuit of profit rather than on forms of ownership and patterns of wealth distribution. She contends that neoliberal capitalism has mutated into a new form—precarity capitalism—marked by the emergence of a precarious multitude. Widespread economic insecurity ails the 99 percent across differences in income, education, and professional occupation; it is the underlying cause of such diverse hardships as work-related stress and chronic unemployment. In response, Azmanova calls for forging a broad alliance of strange bedfellows whose discontent would challenge not only capitalism’s unfair outcomes but also the drive for profit at its core. To achieve this synthesis, progressive forces need to go beyond the old ideological certitudes of, on the left, fighting inequality and, on the right, increasing competition. Azmanova details reforms that would enable a dramatic transformation of the current system without a revolutionary break. An iconoclastic critique of left orthodoxy, Capitalism on Edge confronts the intellectual and political impasses of our time to discern a new path of emancipation.

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The Scandal of Reason

A Critical Theory of Political Judgement

By: Albena Azmanova

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The Scandal of Reason

A Critical Theory of Political Judgement

By: Albena Azmanova

Theories of justice struggle to balance vision and practicality. As with Habermas, the more demanding the ideal of justice, the less connected the theory is to political reality; as with Rawls, the more politically realistic the theory, the weaker its normative criteria, rendering the theory unreliable. Brokering a resolution to the?judgment paradox," Albena Azmanova advances a?critical consensus" model of judgment, which serves the normative ideals of a just society without resorting to ideal theory. Tracing the evolution of two major traditions in political philosophy?critical.

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Capitalism on Edge

How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia

By: Albena Azmanova

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How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia

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The Scandal of Reason

A Critical Theory of Political Judgment

By: Albena Azmanova

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A Critical Theory of Political Judgment

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Theories of justice are haunted by a paradox: the more ambitious the theory of justice, the less applicable and useful the model is to political practice; yet the more politically realistic the theory, the weaker its moral ambition, rendering it unsound and equally useless. Brokering a resolution to this "judgment paradox," Albena Azmanova advances a "critical consensus model" of judgment that serves the normative ideals of a just society without the help of ideal theory. Tracing the evolution of two major traditions in political philosophy—critical theory and philosophical liberalism—and the way they confront the judgment paradox, Azmanova critiques prevailing models of deliberative democracy and their preference for ideal theory over political applicability. Instead, she replaces the reliance on normative models of democracy with an account of the dynamics of reasoned judgment produced in democratic practices of open dialogues. Combining Hannah Arendt's study of judgment with Pierre Bourdieu's social critique of power relations, and incorporating elements of political epistemology from Kant, Wittgenstein, H. L. A. Hart, Max Weber, and American philosophical pragmatism, Azmanova centers her inquiry on the way participants in moral conflicts attribute meaning to their grievances of injustice. She then demonstrates the emancipatory potential of the model of critical deliberative judgment she forges and its capacity to guide policy making. This model's critical force yields from its capacity to disclose the common structural sources of injustice behind conflicting claims to justice. Moving beyond the conflict between universalist and pluralist positions, Azmanova grounds the question of "what is justice?" in the empirical reality of "who suffers?" in order to discern attainable possibilities for a less unjust world.

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0231527284

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The European Union and Sustainable Development

Internal and External Dimensions

By: Marc Pallemaerts,Albena Azmanova

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The European Union and Sustainable Development

Internal and External Dimensions

By: Marc Pallemaerts,Albena Azmanova

Since the Treaty of Amsterdam, sustainable development is legally enshrined among the fundamental objectives of European integration, and the contributors to this volume bring a diversity of perspectives to bear on both the internal and external dimensions of the EU’s relationship with sustainable development. The diversity of views reflected in this book testifies to the politically sensitive, essentially contested nature of the concept. But it cannot be denied that sustainable development policies have become institutionalized in the EU and its Member States and, as such, constitute an important new subject of inquiry and debate for all those interested in the fate of the European project.

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9789054872474

The European Union and Sustainable Development

Internal and External Dimensions

By: Marc Pallemaerts,Albena Azmanova

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Internal and External Dimensions

By: Marc Pallemaerts,Albena Azmanova

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Book's by Albena Azmanova

Capitalism on Edge

Capitalism on Edge

The Scandal of Reason

The Scandal of Reason

Capitalism on Edge

Capitalism on Edge

The Scandal of Reason

The Scandal of Reason

The European Union and Sustainable Development

The European Union and Sustainable Development

The European Union and Sustainable Development

The European Union and Sustainable Development

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